Trump Spoke to Witnesses About Matters They Discussed With Special Counsel
Source: The New York Times
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMANMARCH 7, 2018
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 counsels 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.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/us/politics/trump-witnesses-special-counsel-priebus-mcgahn.html
orangecrush
(19,510 posts)Way to go, dumbass!
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I'm calling Bingo.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)ffr
(22,668 posts)You're innocent. Show that Mueller feller you have no fear.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)to Mars to keep them safe from deplorables.
bearsfootball516
(6,376 posts)Question is, whether or not Republicans care.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)THIS is the greatest danger. They do not care and will not do anything.
dhill926
(16,336 posts)nothing will happen....we need to take the Congress in 2018, or we're fucked...
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)Many of them of my age remember Nixon all too well. At best, let's hope they don't hold their nose and just stay home!
The other factor is that by 2020 (if he lasts that long), the effects of the tax cut bill and trad policies will start becoming all too evident in their wallets.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)that even though Nixon resigned in the face of impeachment in 1974, they barely lost the presidential race in 1976 and then won a big victory in 1980 with Reagan and held the presidency for 12 years afterwards.
BigmanPigman
(51,583 posts)He doesn't care and/or doesn't think the law applies to him. Also, he is incredibly stupid so may not even realize this is very serious.
mcar
(42,296 posts)I keep thinking the same thing...there has to be enough material to put him and his family behind bars...so much that we know, and that is only a small % of what Muller knows.
Maybe I am getting desperate, but how much longer before they are indicted?
Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)This is simply shabby, embarrassing behavior. So ugly.
I hope it will be addressed as "witness tampering" already mentioned by a DU earlier in this thread. It has been treated with total seriousness when other criminals have committed it.
riversedge
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Kyle Griffin Retweeted Kyle Griffin
Interesting: NYT reports that John Kelly was present for both of these conversations.
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Kyle Griffin
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Robert Mueller has learned of two conversations in recent months in which Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, three people familiar with the encounters tell NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/us/politics/trump-witnesses-special-counsel-priebus-mcgahn.html?smid=tw-sh
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SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)Kushner
Ivanka, what did Jared tell them?
Donnie Jr. what did you say about the lie I wrote on the plane?
Hope Hicks what did YOU say about the lie I wrote on the plane?
Sloppy Steve, got anything to share?
Paul ManaFART, can you explain how pardons work, please Paul. Oh, what did they ask you?
Sam Clovis, great to see ya, you losing weight I see....what'd they ask you about?
General Flynn, you are such a great man, STAY STRONG!, Did they ask about.....?
gademocrat7
(10,652 posts)He must be held accountable for all the crimes he has committed against our country.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)mulsh
(2,959 posts)remorse. Not because he hasn't gotten is money's worth but because he has to waste good people dealing with this dumb ass loser.
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)It's working
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Chilling effect on witnesses who work for Trump.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)He may not be good at creating jobs for regular Americans, but he's great at creating jobs on Team Mueller!
BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)Link to tweet
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Benjamin Wittes
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Boomhttps://nyti.ms/2Dc2gvS
7:08 PM - Mar 7, 2018
bucolic_frolic
(43,122 posts)it's like a crescendo is beginning.
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)LOCK HIM UP!