Opinion: Why is Trump raging again? Because Don McGahn will further expose his corruption.
Evan Vucci/AP) By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 23 at 9:59 AM In the past day or so, President Trump and the White House have instructed a former official not to comply with a House subpoena as part of an investigation into the dubious handling of security clearances. They’ve launched an unusual lawsuit to block House Democrats from accessing his finances.
As the Times reports, some White House officials believe the attacks on McGahn are counterproductive. But the most important White House official of all sees things quite differently: Why would Trump fear such a thing, if the Mueller report totally exonerated Trump? Because Mueller’s recounting of episodes involving McGahn are profoundly damning, and highlight Trump’s corruption, bottomless capacity for official deception and contempt for our democracy and the rule of law with great vividness.As Mueller documents, McGahn testified that Trump tried to instruct him to carry out one of his most glaring efforts to obstruct justice — and then to lie to cover it up.
In a particularly revealing passage, Mueller recounts that Trump repeatedly told McGahn that despite any recollections otherwise, he never ordered Mueller’s firing. As the report puts it: “McGahn thought the President was testing his mettle to see how committed McGahn was to what happened." In other words, Trump was probing how much he could get away with in pushing McGahn to lie for him. The President then asked, “What about these notes? Why do you take notes? Lawyers don’t take notes.
We know Trump wanted the truth about that attack to disappear, because he felt it diminished the greatness of his victory, which ended up hamstringing the government’s efforts to prepare for more interference to come. Senator Warren on impeachment: “If there are people in the House or the Senate who want to say that’s what a president can do, when the president is being investigated for his own wrongdoings...then they should have to take that vote and live with it for the rest of their lives.” pic.twitter.com/hqz9zjCYjV
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