Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit

President Trump: NYT Report Saying I Ordered Mueller to Be Fired Is Fake News

Last night the New York Times broke a story claiming President Trump ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller be fired in June 2016. The report also alleges White House Counsel Donald McGahn threatened to quit unless the order was pulled back.

Friday morning President Trump shot down the report, calling it "fake news."

"Fake news folks, fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories," Trump said in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.

According to reporting from Fox News' John Roberts, Trump did ask about the option of firing Mueller and whether he had to authority to do so, but did not order it be done. McGahn denies threatening to quit over the conversation.

Fox News is told, however, that Trump did have conversations about firing Mueller – but it might not have amounted to an outright directive.

A source told Fox News that Trump did not tell White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, but did discuss the possibility of doing so during a meeting with McGahn and others.

Trump asked McGahn if he would talk to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (who has authority over the special counsel) about it, the source said.

McGahn, though, told the president in no uncertain terms that firing Mueller – the head of the probe into possible collusion by Trump associates with Moscow – would be a horrible idea and blow up in his face, the source said. Trump took McGahn’s advice and dropped active consideration of firing Mueller, though continued to reserve that as an option if Mueller’s Russia investigation took an inappropriate turn, Fox News is told.

Pressure from the Special Counsel has heated up in recent weeks. Nearly two dozen White House staffers have been interviewed by Mueller, in addition to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Mueller is expected to interview President Trump soon, should his attorneys allow it.



https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katie...rump-didnt-order-mueller-to-be-fired-n2440204
 
ET’s resident Liberal trolls are like Pavlov’s dogs.
One of their Fake News outlets runs a phony story and they lap it up and get damp in the panties about it.

Over and over and over. Pathetic.
 
In the past, when an investigator’s (or judge’s) impartiality is legitimately questioned, that investigator would recuse himself.

It is interesting that Mueller is not doing so. With Mueller appearing like he “wants” to stay on the investigation, it looks like he may have a political agenda.
 
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If Trump and his team were not guilty of a crime of "collusion" whatever that is, there could be no intention to obstruct justice. Trump wanting to end the investigation because it was bullshit is not criminal intent to obstruct justice.

Unless.. Muller could show that Trump knew Comey and Mueller's team and hillary teamed up with Putin and foreign spies to create the dossier. Mueller could then argue Trump wanted to end the investigation to protect Hillary Comey and top DoJ and FBI officials from going to jail.
 
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jem said:
If Trump and his team were not guilty of a crime of "collusion" whatever that is, there could be no intention to obstruct justice. Trump wanting to end the investigation because it was bullshit is not criminal intent obstruct justice.

Unless.. Muller could show that Trump knew Comey and Muellers team and hillary teamed up with Putin and foreign spies to create the dossier. Mueller could then argue Trump wanted to end the investigation to protect Hillary Comey and top DoJ and FBI officials from going to jail.
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Given Muellers’s political history and party affliation, is it possible the Bush family is behind this as a retaliation on Trump for “beating up” and taking the nomination from “Low Energy Jeb” Bush?
 
As Bannon warned us all the establishment is not going to give our country back to us without a fight.

Who knows if they have leverage on Trump and therefore he is not following through on his campaign promises.

maximumpossiblesuffering said:
Given Muellers’s political history and party affliation, is it possible the Bush family is behind this as a retaliation on Trump for “beating up” and taking the nomination from “Low Energy Jeb” Bush?
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jem said:
As Bannon warned us all the establishment is not going to give our country back to us without a fight.

Who knows if they have leverage on Trump and therefore he is not following through on his campaign promises.
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It can't possibly be that the man is a pathological liar right? The only possibility is that he is being pressured do all the shit he has done all his life.
 
Trump is a liar... as is Obama and the clintons. so what..
its seems your default talking point is Trump is a liar.
I just want him to execute on his campaign promises.

his lying is not this issue. Until Trump sells us out on amnesty he is not nearly as big a liar as Obama was to the people. until trump lies to the FBI, I don't think they have anything on him. Because everyone is telling us it would have leaked by now.




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It can't possibly be that the man is a pathological liar right? The only possibility is that he is being pressured do all the shit he has done all his life.
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