Bloomberg Law
May 17, 2017, 2:13 PM UTC

Comey Memo Could Thrust Trump Into a Deeper Legal Quagmire

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By David Voreacos, Kartikay Mehrotra, Patricia Hurtado, and Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg News

One question is now gripping much of the U.S.: Did President Donald Trump commit a crime in his first month in the Oval Office?

Democrats say reports that the president asked former FBI Director James Comey to drop a criminal investigation into one of his former top aides amount to obstruction of justice, if true. Some legal experts aren’t so sure.

“The comments by Trump as reported are ‘just lay off,”’ said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. “That would be just one thing. It wouldn’t be criminal obstruction ...

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