By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--January 27, 2018
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A bombshell new report says that President Trump did in fact want Robert Mueller fired, but he backed off when the White House counsel threatened to quit over the order. Trump ordered the firing of Mueller, who is the special counsel leading the investigation into his campaign’s Russia ties, in June last year, according to the New York Times. The president reportedly backed down after White House counsel Don McGahn “threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive.” What’s more, Mueller recently found out about the president’s attempts to have him fired after his investigators interviewed White House officials as part of his investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice. Trump reportedly pointed to multiple conflicts of interest he thought existed regarding Mueller (including an old golf club membership dispute), but McGahn still refused to carry out the directive to fire the special counsel — and reassured White House staffers that the president would not do it himself:A bombshell new report says that President Trump did in fact want Robert Mueller fired, but he backed off when the White House counsel threatened to quit over the order.
Trump ordered the firing of Mueller, who is the special counsel leading the investigation into his campaign’s Russia ties, in June last year, according to the New York Times. The president reportedly backed down after White House counsel Don McGahn “threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive.” What’s more, Mueller recently found out about the president’s attempts to have him fired after his investigators interviewed White House officials as part of his investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice. Trump reportedly pointed to multiple conflicts of interest he thought existed regarding Mueller (including an old golf club membership dispute), but McGahn still refused to carry out the directive to fire the special counsel — and reassured White House staffers that the president would not do it himself.Don McGahn and others in the White House don't want Mueller fired because they're afraid of the political fallout. Washington conventional wisdom says that any attempt to rein in a special counsel is the tip-off of a constitutional crisis.
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