Trump’s son seems to confirm Comey’s account of the president’s comments on the Flynn investigation

The following article by Jenna Johnson was posted on the Washington Post website June 11, 2017:

Donald Trump Jr., executive vice president of the Trump Organization, announces that the company is launching a new hotel chain June 5 in New York. (Kathy Willens/AP)

Soon after former FBI director James B. Comey testified that President Trump told him that he “hoped” the FBI would drop its investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the president’s personal lawyer flatly denied that accusation and said Trump “never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone.”

But Donald Trump Jr. — the president’s eldest son — seemed to confirm Comey’s version of events in a Saturday interview on Fox News as he tried to emphasize the fact that his father did not directly order Comey to stop investigating Flynn. Continue reading “Trump’s son seems to confirm Comey’s account of the president’s comments on the Flynn investigation”