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President Trump seethed Friday over the special counsels portrayal of his protracted campaign to thwart the Russia investigation and directed much of his ire at former White House counsel Donald McGahn, whose ubiquity in the reports footnotes laid bare his extensive cooperation in chronicling the presidents actions.
Some of the reports most derogatory scenes were attributed not only to the recollections of McGahn and other witnesses but also to the contemporaneous notes kept by several senior administration officials the kind of paper trail that Trump has long sought to avoid leaving.
Many White House aides use pen and paper both as a defensive mechanism such as when then-Chief of Staff John F. Kelly documented Trumps move to grant security clearances to his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and as a means of creating the first draft of a page-turning presidency.
But the fact that some of those notes became primary source material for Mueller to paint a vivid portrait of Trumps efforts to derail the investigation angered the president, who was stewing over the media coverage as he decamped to Florida for the holiday weekend, according to people familiar with his thinking.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-blames-mcgahn-after-mueller-paints-damning-portrait-with-notes-from-white-house-aides/2019/04/19/ea0f153a-62b4-11e9-9412-daf3d2e67c6d_story.html?utm_term=.e03cf87c4e04
McGahn stayed and worked for the criminal when he knew better simply so he could pack the Supreme Court. And one of the lawyers they hired was Scott Walker, what could go wrong?
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(268,918 posts)No tears here - let ReTHUGs devour themselves