President Trump asked at least two witnesses interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller for information about what they discussed with Mueller’s team, according to The New York Times.
Trump reportedly told White House counsel Don McGahn he should issue a statement denying a previous Times report that said Mueller’s team had learned the president once asked McGahn to fire Mueller.
Trump also reportedly asked former chief of staff Reince Priebus during a December meeting how his interview with Mueller’s team had gone and if the investigators had been “nice.”
Priebus, according to the Times, told Trump that they had conducted themselves professionally.
According to the report, sources familiar with the conversations informed Mueller that the conversations happened, passing them on out of concern that they were of interest to Mueller’s ongoing investigation.
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The Times reported in late January that Trump once sought to have McGahn fire Mueller, but ultimately backed away from that demand after McGahn threatened to quit.
According to the latest Times report, former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned last month following domestic abuse allegations, told McGahn that Trump wanted him to issue a statement denying that he had ever asked him to fire Mueller.
Porter reportedly told McGahn that Trump had suggested he would fire the White House counsel if he did not deny the Times’s story. However, McGahn did not dispute the allegation publicly.
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Trump asked White House aides to tell him what they told Mueller: report https://t.co/oQuVcxy8i7 pic.twitter.com/RqvN0EgliW
— The Hill (@thehill) March 8, 2018
I should think there would be something unethical or even illegal about a guy, who could possibly be a target of an investigation, asking witnesses what they told the special counsel.
Would an innocent man be doing this kind of thing? Trump has GUILTY written all over his actions.
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