United States: Did Donald Trump Obstruct Justice?

The royal treatment that Donald Trump received in Saudi Arabia distracted him for a moment from his inner problems. But they have not disappeared and the US media continues to give ample consideration to the reasons for the dismissal of former FBI director James Comey, who was investigating suspicions of collusion between the campaign team Trump and Russia.


Can Donald Trump be accused of obstructing justice, a serious offense, liable to imprisonment? And in his case, perhaps of dismissal. The question arises after James Comey, then director of the FBI revealed to his close associates that the president had asked him not to pursue his investigation of Mike Flynn's contacts with Russians.

Did he want to influence the boss of the federal police and if he dismissed him shortly afterward, is it because of his refusal? The New York Times wrote Friday, May 19 that Trump had entrusted Sergei Lavrov in the oval office that since he had sacked Comey, he felt better. Was he afraid that he was about to discover that there was indeed a collusion between his collaborators and the Russians to help him win the election?

On Wednesday he said he had no personal contact with Russia and also denied having asked Comey to leave his former adviser Mike Flynn alone. The situation is so disorderly that the lawyers of the Banche House study, as a preventive measure, the procedure of dismissal, in order to be ready to defend the president.

Such an eventuality, in the general opinion, is however very remote and rather unlikely. James Comey for his part agreed to testify publicly at the Congress at the end of the month. It will be a captivating hearing.