Among those instances was one in which McGahn said the president directed himto fire Mueller as special counsel
In the wake of the Mueller report’s release, Trump administration officials asked former White House counsel Don McGahn to publicly declare the president never obstructed justice, according to multiplereports on Friday.
Mueller’s report, a redacted version of which was made public on April 18, detailed 10 instances in which President Donald Trump may have obstructed justice by attempting to intervene in the Russia investigation. Trump has shrugged off these reports, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll: “Nobody disobeys my orders.”“If I wanted to fire Mueller, I didn’t need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself,” Trump tweeted last month.
“We did not perceive it as any kind of threat or something sinister. It was a request, professionally and cordially made,” William Burck, a lawyer for McGahn, told the Journal.The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to McGahn in April commanding him to testify on May 21 and requesting he supply documents related to his testimony outlined in the Mueller report.
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