Trump pulled the rug out from under Comey who was slow walking the investigation in an effort to dray it out until the 2018 Mid-Terms, and then leak the memo during that time.
This is all about Trump exposing the lies about the Russian story and getting fake investigation on the fast track and expose that the whole investigation was based on lies and politically motivated by Comey.
Why wasn't Comey pursing the leaks? Trump asked everyone to find out who the leakers were, yet Comey refused to make it a priority. Only the Russian investigation was a priority for Comey? Why didn't Comey want to get to the bottom of the leakers? Because he was a leaker himself.
Because he knew right where they were.
I was roughly probing the timeline of "Flynn contact with Russia" and events following. The fact that Flynn was under investigation was also leaked.
That sets up the honey-pot theory, where Flynn "did a minor wrong on purpose" to get Trump's enemies to come into Trump's view.
Another thing with Flynn, like the other Trump/Russia investigations. Comey had no intention of EVER closing them. Keeping them open is his excuse to keep the muh Russia fires burning, while hoping for a processs crime, which is the ONLY thing currently open vs. Flynn. That is, if we believe Comey's testimony on that point.