President Trump Contradicts Mueller Report on Key Democratic Concern
The fight over the public perception of the Mueller report has been raging in Washington and on television for the last several days, and there looks to be no end in sight.
The media is doing their thing, whatever that thing seems to be. They are dividing the nation up into easily definable segments as a way to pit us against each other, because an angry America makes for great ratings.
Politicians are certainly doing their part as well, with democratic lawmakers insisting on a nonstop issuance of subpoenas to those involved in the report’s manufacture, as well as some legal requests from way outside the realm of RussiaGate.
Amid all this, the President is standing firm in his insistence that there was “no collusion, no obstruction”, even going so far today as to cast doubts on the authenticity of the testimony of his own aides.
President Donald Trump denied Thursday he ordered White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
“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,” the president wrote on Twitter. “If I wanted to fire Mueller, I didn’t need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself.”
Trump noted that ultimately Mueller was not fired and was allowed to complete his investigation, even though there was no crime to investigate.
Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference on the 2016 election contained sworn testimony from McGhan to the contrary, and this is one of the key points of the democratic party’s renewed interest in the possibility of charging the President with obstruction of justice.
