New York Times fictions memo from James Comey makes slanderous claim President Trump asked Comey end investigation of NSA advisor Mike Flynn

If this allegation was true why didn't James Comey immediately report this incident to the Department of Justice? 
That would've been the proper course of action. 

Daily Mail reports former FBI director James Comey accused President Donald Trump of asking him to close a federal investigation into disgraced general Mike Flynn during a February 14 meeting in the Oval Office.

'I hope you can let this go,' Trump told Comey, according to a copy of a memo read to a New York Times reporter.

Comey reportedly wrote the memo immediately after he met with Trump, as part of an effort to document situations in which the president sought to interfere in the FBI's operations.

The White House quickly fired back, claiming in a statement that 'the President has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn.'

 

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