{"id":22384,"date":"2017-06-07T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=22384"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:40:51","slug":"22384","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/22384\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey Testimony: Trump asked me to let Flynn investigation go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22386\" src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comey.jpg\" alt=\"comey\" width=\"357\" height=\"201\" data-wp-pid=\"22386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comey.jpg 876w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comey-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comey-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comey-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comey-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/>CNN<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Former FBI Director James Comey will say Thursday that President Donald Trump asked him about the former national security adviser Michael Flynn and to &#8220;see your way clear to letting this go,&#8221; according to a copy of his opening remarks posted online.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;He then said, &#8216;I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go,'&#8221; Comey said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/07\/politics\/james-comey-memos-testimony\/index.html\">in remarks posted on the website of the Senate intelligence committee<\/a>. &#8220;I replied only that &#8216;he is a good guy.&#8217; (In fact, I had a positive experience dealing with Mike Flynn when he was a colleague as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the beginning of my term at FBI.) I did not say I would &#8216;let this go.'&#8221;<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/07\/politics\/james-comey-testimony-released\/index.html\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whisper_Impeach_Ad-2.png\" alt=\"How to impeach a president\" width=\"489\" height=\"326\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\">Citizen led Trump impeachment method.<br \/>\nRules of the House of Representatives stipulate citizens can initiate it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u00a0&#8211; Former FBI Director James Comey will say Thursday that President Donald Trump asked him about the former national security adviser Michael Flynn and to &#8220;see your way clear to letting this go,&#8221; according to a copy of his opening remarks posted online. &#8220;He then said, &#8216;I hope you can see your way clear to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[136,76,123,126,106,93,137,105,77,138],"class_list":["post-22384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impeachment-news","tag-comey","tag-impeach","tag-impeachtrump","tag-potus","tag-resist","tag-russia","tag-russiagate","tag-theresistance","tag-trump","tag-trumprussia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Comey Testimony: Trump asked me to let Flynn investigation go &#8226; 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