President Trump is challenging Don McGahn’s testimony to Robert Mueller
President Donald Trump is challenging his former White House counsel’s testimony to Robert Mueller, asserting that he never even so much as suggested firing the special counsel.with ABC News, the president suggested that Don McGahn told Mueller of Trump’s supposed directive that he be fired in order to save face."The story on that very simply, No. 1, I was never going to fire Mueller. I never suggested firing Mueller," Trump said.
"I don't care what he says, it doesn't matter,” he argued. “That was to show everyone what a good counsel he was.” According to the report, Trump asked McGahn to inform then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that Mueller was too conflicted to serve as special counsel, just days after media reports revealed that the special counsel was looking into whether Trump obstructed justice and for the first time was personally a target of the investigation. McGahn said he took this to mean Trump was asking him to remove Mueller from the investigation.
McGahn declined to fire Mueller, instead threatening to resign rather than do so, putting him in the company of numerous other presidential aides who shut down Trump’s attempts to thwart the investigation.
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