.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump is far happier with Corey Lewandowski’s testimony than he should be.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 9/17/19, 9:00 PM ET Combative Lewandowski begrudgingly affirms Mueller report's truth Rachel Maddow reviews highlights of former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski before the House Judiciary Committee in which, despite his best efforts, he ultimately confirmed what the Mueller report said about his role in Trump’s effort to share tweet email save Embed The circumstances may not have seemed historic at first blush, but the House Judiciary...
It was, to be sure, a frustrating afternoon. Trump refused to allow his former White House aides to testify, and he instructed a private citizen – who never worked in the White House – not to answer relevant questions about alleged misdeeds he personally witnessed. The idea that the president has the authority to block legitimate federal investigations because he feels like is, to put it mildly, problematic.
But no one – not Lewandowski nor committee Republicans – seriously disputed the central theme of the day: that Trump had gone to extreme lengths in circumventing the entirety of the federal government to get Lewandowski to instruct then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to publicly announce that the president had done nothing wrong and limit the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe in 2017. None of this was good news for Team Trump.
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