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Trump Encouraged Witnesses 'Not to Cooperate'
Following
the firing of James Comey as director of the FBI and the appointment of Mueller as special counsel, the report states, the president's behavior towards the FBI and its investigation into Russian interference in the election became hostile, both in public and private: . "At that point, the president engaged in a second phase of conduct involving public attacks on the investigation, non-public efforts to control it, and efforts in both private and public to encourage witnesses not cooperate with the investigation."
Mueller: Trump Told Comey to Kill Flynn Investigation
One day after the resignation of Michael Flynn as national security advisor, Trump met with then-FBI Director James Comey in the Oval Office and told him that he "hope[d] you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," adding that he was "a good guy." Comey
would later tell Congress that he understood those remarks to be a request to "drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador."
'Some Evidence' Trump Knew of Flynn's Conversations with Russian Ambassador
Flynn served as national security advisor for a mere 24 days before his resignation, after reports surfaced that he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of his past conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. During the transition, Flynn had discussed
rolling back Obama-era sanctions on Russia and Russian citizens with the ambassador, and then lied to the FBI about those conversations, a crime to which he pleaded guilty and has not yet been sentenced—in part because he has "substantially" assisted the Mueller investigation, according to a sentencing memo released in December 2018.
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