Trump asked James Comey to stop investigating Michael Flynn

According to The New York Times, back in February Donald Trump asked James Comey to stop investigating Michael Flynn and his ties to Russia. And Comey wrote about it in a memo to other FBI officials.

WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.

“I hope you can let this go,” the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.

The documentation of Mr. Trump’s request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.

Now Congress is asking for all of the documentation of the communications between Trump and Comey.

So there you have it. Trump did fire Comey over the Russia investigation. That's making the stench of obstruction of justice even worse than the Lester Holt interview.