U.S. President Trump requested Comey in February to drop the investigation into Flynn - NYT

Felipe Erazo FXStreet

According to The New York Times, U.S. President Donald Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey in February to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn. "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He's a good guy", Trump said in a memo addressed to Comey.

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Born in Colombia, Felipe Erazo is the American Session Manager at FXStreet. He has been studying journalism with a degree in social communication at the Universidad de Chile.

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