Donald Trump The article is about Donald Trump being accused of potential obstruction of justice in the probe into his collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Tump allegedly sacked the former director of the FBI because of the latter's unwilligness to let go an investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's contacts with the high-ranking Russian officials. In addition, President reportedly tried to influence the head of the National Security Agency and the director of national intelligence so that they would issue statements denying evidence of his ties with Russia in the 2016 campaign.