FBI/JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “President Donald Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey is now a subject of the federal probe being headed by special counsel Robert Mueller, which has expanded to include whether the president obstructed justice, a person familiar with the matter said.
Mr. Mueller is examining whether the president fired Mr. Comey as part of a broader effort to alter the direction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether associates of Mr. Trump colluded with Moscow, the person said.
Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, denounced the revelation in a statement.
‘The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal,’ Mr. Corallo said.
Mr. Trump’s reaction to the new turn in Mr. Mueller’s inquiry came early Thursday morning in the form of a tweet. He suggested that he is unhappy with the focus on obstruction of justice, given that he believes there was no underlying crime.”
-Del Quentin Wilber, Shane Harris, and Paul Sonne, “Mueller Probe Examining Whether Donald Trump Obstructed Justice,” The Wall Street Journal online, June 15, 2017 07:27am