Trump attempts to deflect obstruction of justice accusations by attacking Comey

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Early Sunday, President Trump responded to accusations that one of his Saturday tweets inadvertently admitted to obstruction of justice by indicating he knew former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI at the time he allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation into Flynn. Trump's response was to post additional tweets attacking Comey and denying his account of the "let this go" conversation about the Flynn probe:

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.