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The New York Times Says Trump Tried To Fire Mueller

January 28, 2018 19:16·
Mike Theiler Reuters Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed The New York Times only to get called out on social media

Mike Theiler Reuters Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed The New York Times only to get called out on social media

"Fake news, folks", Trump told reporters in Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum.

White House counsel Don McGahn refused to order the Justice Department to fire Mueller because he disagreed with the President's reasoning, the source said.

What if the allegation is true?

After the news came out Thursday night, Democratic Sen. Warner is the ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment on the report.

SHAPIRO: You say the White House counsel pushed back on President Trump's justifications.

One source said that, back in June, the President and his attorneys had multiple discussions about whether they should make an issue of Mueller's conflicts.

Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas. "Some of this may just be no more than the president - as all presidents have done - racing their engines about things".

Facebook, Google and Twitter have faced a stream of revelations about how Moscow sought to use their platforms to sow discord in the United States and influence the election in favor of Trump, the Republican presidential candidate.

Mueller was appointed special counsel in May by the Justice Department after Trump fired FBI director James Comey, who was leading the agency's Russian Federation investigation.

It could have no bearing on the investigation at all.

Manafort and one of his former business associates were indicted in October on counts of conspiracy to launder money, making false statements and other charges as part of Mueller's probe.

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But that raises a perennial constitutional question: Can the president be charged in criminal court? Some in the legal field say yes. It was about Mueller as a member of the golf club, according to The Times.

Mueller, who is investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 USA election, learned of the incident in recent months as his investigators interviewed current and former senior White House officials in an inquiry into whether the President obstructed justice, the Times reported.

The interview was part of Mueller's probe into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 USA election and whether there was any collusion between Trump associates and Moscow, Wired said, citing an anonymous source. The President's 2016 campaign has turned over more than 1.4 million pages.

The number of voluntary interviews included eight people from the White House counsel's office.

The President has denied he had any intention of getting rid of Mueller, who is probing possible connections between Trump's campaign and Russian election meddling. Dowd's disclosure did not name the people nor provide a breakdown of how many were interviewed only by Mueller's team.

Trump's national approval numbers are low, but his conservative base has kept up its solid support through all the criticism he has come under in his first year as president.

If Mueller is going to be fired, it must be for reasons that can stand up to at least minimal judicial scrutiny. Since then, his public demeanor toward Mueller has changed. Lindsey Graham and Thom Tillis introduced legislation that would protect the special counsel. But that hasn't gone anywhere. The Times reports that Trump backed down only after the top White House lawyer threatened to quit.

The 1999 federal regulation under which Mueller was appointed says that a special counsel can be fired only "for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause".

In June, The Washington Post reported that Mueller's investigation was broadening to include looking into a potential obstruction of justice case.

This week, the president declared he was eager to do it - and under oath.

The report comes as Mueller moves ever closer to interviewing Trump himself. I think it's pretty clear by what one of his lawyers said on television recently.

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