The amnesia came in different flavors. “Do not recall” — 14 times. “No recollection” — 9. “Do not remember” — 6. “No independent recollection” — 2. “Nor do I recall” — 2. “Nor do I remember” — 1.
President Trump has repeatedly crowed that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report is a “total exoneration.” After its release Thursday morning, he tweeted: “No collusion. No obstruction. For the haters and the radical left Democrats — Game Over.”
“This was one of many busy months during a fast-paced campaign, as the primary season was ending and we were preparing for the general election campaign,” Trump wrote.In his written responses to questions from Mueller's team, President Trump denied that he was being serious when, in a July 2016 press conference, he seemed to invite or welcome Russia hacking into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
“There are reasonable arguments that the offered information would constitute a 'thing of value,'" the report says. While she was speaking, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was messaging Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman, on his phone that the meeting was a “waste of time,” the report describes. He arranged to leave early by having his assistant call him “to give him an excuse to leave,” the report said.Trump wanted to keep it in, however. And it was kept in.
Mueller wrote that a balance is needed between the president’s constitutional authority and separation of power with Congress, but that Congress is allowed to act, including pursuing impeachment. Applying that test, “we concluded that Congress can validly make obstruction-of-justice statutes applicable to corruptly motivated official acts of the President without impermissibly undermining” his constitutional authority, he wrote.
Trump had become so upset with Flynn by the time his conversations with the Russian envoy emerged in news reports that Trump had stopped looking at him during national security meetings, another former White House official told Mueller’s team. Flynn was pushed out after less than a month, and later pleaded guilty to lying to investigators.
“The statement dictated by the President did not mention the offer of derogatory information about Clinton," the report says.There was an extended back and forth between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks over Twitter direct messages, according to the report. The president was meeting that day with Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, the attorney general’s chief of staff and White House counsel Don McGahn, interviewing potential candidates for FBI director.
“It takes years and years and I won’t be able to do anything. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”Michael Flynn, the president’s first national security advisor, was on the FBI’s radar before his controversial conversations in December 2016 with Sergei Kislyak, Russia's ambassador in Washington.
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