In a fit of pique over Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, former President
Donald Trump almost reached an “inflection point” and “point of no return” that would have set in motion a
Richard Nixon-style “Saturday Night Massacre,” ex-White House Counsel
Don McGahn recently told Congress behind closed doors.
The just-released transcript of McGahn’s closed door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee contains a series of new answers and elaborations on details that were publicized in the Mueller Report.
Releasing the June 4th transcript on Wednesday, Judiciary Chair
Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said: “Mr. McGahn provided the Committee with substantial new information including firsthand accounts of President Trump’s increasingly out of control behavior, and insight into concerns that the former President’s conduct could expose both Trump and McGahn to criminal liability.”
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Trump s ex-White House counsel said he felt frustrated, perturbed, trapped when Trump asked for his help firing Mueller.
He also said that he tried to get off the phone when Trump raised the subject.
Don McGahn made the comments while testifying to Congress last week about the Mueller probe.
Former White House counsel Don McGahn testified to Congress last week that he felt trapped when then President Donald Trump asked him to help engineer the removal of the special counsel Robert Mueller during the Russia investigation.
McGahn was a central witness in Mueller s inquiry into whether Trump obstructed justice as part of the Russia probe. Last week, in closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, McGahn recounted what it was like when Trump called him in 2017 and asked him to direct then acting attorney general Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller.