Trump Refuse trying to Stop Flynn Probe

US President Donald Trump disavowed Sunday having asked then FBI director James Comey to stop searching ex-national safety advisor Michael Flynn, as the Russia officiousness probe obscure what would otherwise have been a triumphal week for the Republican president.

Trump attendant to be backtracking frantically from a tweet Saturday that deepened jealousy that he involved in obstruction of justice-an impeachable offense-in the Russia scandal haunting his presidency. 

In that social site Twitter post, Trump said he had fired Flynn in February for lying not just to the vice president but also to Comey’s FBI, which was probing Flynn over his pre-inauguration contacts with the Russian ambassador about US sanctions imposed by Barack Obama in opposition to Russia for interfering in the US election.

Comey has testified under adjuration to lawgiver that a day after firing Flynn, Trump asked him to spill the Flynn probe.

If Comey is to be trusted, the Saturday tweet suggests Trump asked the FBI to hold off somebody in his administration that Trump now acknowledges he knew had exclude a felony-lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

But on Sunday, Trump insisted, “I never asked Comey to stop inquiring Flynn. Just more Fake News covering another Comey lie!”

Trump fired Comey in May and has said he did so with the Russia probe in mind.

Representative Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said Sunday suspicions of obstacle of judge by Trump are developing.

Schiff argued that if the proof shows that Trump knew about and directed Flynn’s Russia contacts, and then asked Comey to drop the affairs after his lies to the FBI came to light, “Then you get the case of obstruction of judge.”

“I think that’s the significance of this context in which the president was intervening,” he said on ABC’s this week.

Senator Diane Feinstein told NBC: “I think what we are starting to see is a case of obstruction of judge.”

“Clearly he is making devlopment,” Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, said of particular advice Robert Mueller’s inquiry.

And in the wake of Trump’s seemingly self-incriminating Twitter post on Saturday, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a said he had counsel for him.

“You tweet and remark pertaining ongoing offender investigations at your own peril. I’d be cautious if I were you, Mr. President. I’d watch it,” Graham told CBS.

In an sinister turn for the president, Flynn on Friday pleaded criminal to lying to the FBI and pledged to collaborate with Mueller.

White House officials told The New York Times that in his tweet Saturday Trump was only referencing Flynn’s criminal pretext for lying to the FBI about his discussion with then Russian representative Sergey Kislyak.

Trump’s private lawyer John Dowd told ABC News that he had drafted the tweet and had done so in a “sloppy” method.

What the president knew, and when

Mueller’s focus goes beyond probable collusion with Russia to business trading and whether Trump himself tried to transverse the inquiry.

Trump also published anger Sunday over word that a senior FBI counterintelligence official, Peter Strzok, was withdrawn from the Russia inquiry over the summer for sending text messages troublesome of Trump.

Strzok had also worked on the probe into Hillary Clinton’s usage of a personal e-mail server while serving as secretary of province.

“ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE” Now it all starts to make sense!” Trump wrote.

As he left for a day trip to New York on Saturday, Trump again insisted his team had not impressed with Moscow to swing the election in his favor over Clinton, who won the popular vote but lost the all-important electoral college count.

“What has been shown is no collusion. There’s been absolutely no collusion. So we’re very happy,” Trump said.

Comey himself seemed to be addressing the latest developments in an social site Instagram message: “To paraphrase the Buddha-Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun; the moon; and the truth.”

Tax win overshadowed

The explosive new improvement in the Russia probe have overshadowed a major legislative win for Trump: the Senate’s passage of the most momentous US tax overhaul in 31 years.

Both the Senate and House versions lower the corporate tax rate to 20% from 35%, and include more modest tax cuts aimed at individuals across all income levels.

Democrats traverse that the plan is too costly and will accommodate only the exuberant, and that it could ultimately impact reared US entitlement programs like Medicare.

The Senate bill was, just 24 hours prior, on the brink of decline when a paw of Republican scarcity hawks balked at the plan’s $1.5 trillion price tag for Ten years.

Trump hopes to sign a final bill before Christmas. That would be a much-needed conquest for the president, who has exempted on hardly any of his major legislative commitment, including repealing the health care law known as Obamacare.