Posted on 03/07/2018 5:01:37 PM PST by bitt
WASHINGTON — The special counsel in the Russia investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to three people familiar with the encounters.
In one episode, the president told an aide that the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, should issue a statement denying a New York Times article in January. The article said Mr. McGahn told investigators that the president once asked him to fire the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. Mr. McGahn never released a statement and later had to remind the president that he had indeed asked Mr. McGahn to see that Mr. Mueller was dismissed, the people said.
In the other episode, Mr. Trump asked his former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, how his interview had gone with the special counsel’s investigators and whether they had been “nice,” according to two people familiar with the discussion.
The episodes demonstrate that even as the special counsel investigation appears to be intensifying, the president has ignored his lawyers’ advice to avoid doing anything publicly or privately that could create the appearance of interfering with it.
The White House did not respond to several requests for comment. Mr. Priebus and Mr. McGahn declined to comment through their lawyer, William A. Burck.
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” But witnesses and lawyers who learned about the conversations viewed them as potentially a problem and shared them with Mr. Mueller. “
Anonymous snitches .... and the probable leakers.
Tweet that to Maggie May.
Twitter under a far-left full spectrum censorship regime is no longer useful as a platform.
absolutely..he can ask or comment on any case he pleases...
still no there there
FakeNewsNYT can’t stop this narrative.
it is all stands between them and the fact they & the rest of the FakeNewsMSM colluded/conspired with DNC/Obama/Clinton/DOJ/FBI/CIA/etc to try to stop Donald Trump becoming president.
funny how undemocratic they are.
Hardly an expose, she was called out about this on Twitter during the 2016 campaign.
If it comes to that, Americans will be their usual creative selves. Not to worry.
Totally legal, even if it did happen.
Thanks for that..!
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