Donald Trump has refuted the claims made by a media report that he had asked sacked FBI Director James Comey to quash the agency’s investigation into ties between his former national security adviser Mike Flynn and Russia. “No,” he said when he was asked about the report during a White House news conference on Thursday. According to a report published in the New York Times on Tuesday, Trump asked Comey to end the investigation against Flynn. “I hope you can let this go,” the US President was quoted as telling Comey in the report.