Are we all of a sudden forgetting what the Madman told Lester Holt?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

He came right out and said he fired Comey because he wanted to be done with the Russia investigation.

Boom. Right there. Clear obstruction.

Are we going to pretend that just because he chumped his Assistant AG and Press Secretary into saying he fired Comey for other reasons that he didn't come out and himself admit right to the country exactly why he fired Comey?

I was listening to NPR this morning and they had some legal analyst going back and forth all wishy-washy, "Well I don't know whether or not what Trump did rose to the level of obstruction or not....."

Of course it was obstruction. He plain out admitted it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Oh yeah....and the MF Russians, too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?_r=0

WASHINGTON — President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Mr. Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

The conversation, during a May 10 meeting — the day after he fired Mr. Comey — reinforces the notion that the president dismissed him primarily because of the bureau’s investigation into possible collusion between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russian operatives. Mr. Trump said as much in one televised interview, but the White House has offered changing justifications for the firing.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Nope. Lawrence O'Donnell even covered it again last night.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Oh, yeah, and he also threatened Comey over Twitter.

Link to tweet