Re: State of the Union - pre/post election & whatever...
As Trump fired Comey based on a recommendation from Rod Rosenstein,
Not only is that utterly false but it has been disproven directly by both Trump and Rosenstein. Not even the Breitbart/Washington Examiner/Faux News of the world is still trying this old canard.
Rosenstein was ordered (and has stated publicly he was ordered), by Trump, to produce a memo justifying the firing of Comey. (Ultra stupid even by Trump standards. No firing Comey, no special counsel.)
Trump himself, after the firing, admitted to Lester Holt, on camera - "No matter what the memo stated, I was going to fire him anyway because, you know, RUSSIA."
Obstruction