According to Comey, Trump expressed his “hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.”The letter disputes Comey’s version of events but says it wouldn’t matter if Trump had made those statements. the president should be able to commit a crime and then call off the investigation of it. What if he murdered his valet?”That is a fanciful hypothetical, but the more reality-based one also underscores the extreme nature of the Trump lawyers’ claim. The context was Comey, but the implications are chilling: that Trump asserts the right to terminate the Russia probe altogether. This is a scary vision of the power entrusted to any president, but especially this one.

Source: Washington Post June 02, 2018 22:37 UTC