A report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller mentions an incident when US President Donald Trump instructed a staff member to fire Mueller in 2017.
Donald Trump has vowed to fight every subpoena from House Democrats probing his administration.
“As has been incorrectly reported by the Fake News Media, I never told then-White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller, even though I had the legal right to do so. If I wanted to fire Mueller, I didn’t need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself,” Trump wrote on Twitter. The report mentioned an incident in June 2017, when Trump called McGahn to say the White House counsel should direct Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was overseeing the special counsel’s probe, to remove Mueller because of conflicts of interest.
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