Leah Barkoukis
. . . "Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat, said Trump has the constitutional right as president to fire his FBI director.
“ 'You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate,” Dershowitz said during an interview with Fox News.
“ 'We have precedents that clearly establish that.”
"Talk of the president obstructing justice resurfaced after his former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last week about his conversation with the Russian ambassador.
"Trump didn’t help matters by tweeting over the weekend that he knew Flynn lied to the FBI." . . .
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