Trump suggests Don McGahn lied to Mueller under oath -- and bars his testimony

[applegrove]

Trump suggests Don McGahn lied to Mueller under oath — and bars his testimony

Igor Derysh at Salon

https://www.salon.com/2019/06/14/trump-suggests-don-mcgahn-lied-to-mueller-under-oath-and-bars-his-testimony/

"SNIP.....


ident Trump claimed in an interview with ABC News that former White House counsel Don McGahn “lied” under oath to special counsel Robert Mueller about Trump’s repeated attempts to have Mueller fired.

Trump told ABC News’ George Stephanopulos that McGahn “may have been confused” when he told Mueller that Trump repeatedly ordered him to have then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein fire the special counsel.

"The story on that very simply, No. 1, I was never going to fire Mueller. I never suggested firing Mueller," Trump said.

When pressed on McGahn’s 30 hours of testimony to the special counsel’s team, Trump replied, “It doesn’t matter what he says. It doesn’t matter.”


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[dchill]

1. Gee, why do I think the president is lying?

[BlueJac]

2. No shit!!

K&R

[badhair77]

3. I am suggesting the trump lies about everything

[AJT]

4. McGahn, like many other government employees,

are afraid of losing their retirement benefits. They saw McCabe lose his.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. McGahn doesn't work for the government any more.

He’s in private law practice. It's possible that he's afraid Trump would do or say something damaging to his law firm's business; in fact, this seems to be happening already.

The Trump campaign has hired its own in-house attorney for its 2020 reelection bid — shifting future business away from Jones Day, the law firm, that has represented Trump since his first run for president.

Campaign officials and advisers cast the decision to hire Nathan Groth — a former lawyer for the Republican National Committee and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — as a money-saving move, supported by the businessman-turned-president who loves to cut costs.

But close Trump advisers say the decision also stems from disappointment with the White House’s former top attorney and current Jones Day partner, Don McGahn, whose behavior has irked the president and some of his family members.

Taking business away from Jones Day is payback, these advisers say, for McGahn’s soured relationship with the Trump family and a handful articles in high-profile newspapers that the family blames, unfairly or not, on the former White House counsel.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/trump-campaign-mcgahn-1283545

But McGahn is not in danger of losing a government pension.

[AJT]

10. Ahhh, thanks. It's all part of the authoritarian handbook.

Keep people in line with fear or favors.

[WePurrsevere]

5. Trump lies more often then most people wash thier hands...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/10/politics/donald-trump-lies-fact-check/index.html

CNN)In his first 869 days as President, Donald Trump said 10,796 things that were either misleading or outright false, according to The Washington Post's Fact Checker. Do the math and you get this: The President of the United States is saying 12 untrue things a day.
Which is a lot! But it's also hard to wrap your head around how much lying or, uh, misleading that actually is. So, think about it this way: Trump is lying more every day than a majority of Americans wash their hands. According to data from the American Cleaning Institute, just 50% of Americans wash their hands in excess of 10 times a day.

He's recent;y ramped up his lying BS to around 16 per this WaPo article...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/10/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.aaf3a6d8c54d

The president crossed the 10,000 threshold on April 26, and he has been averaging about 16 fishy claims a day since then. From the start of his presidency, he has averaged about 12 such claims a day.

So... what are the odds that Trump is telling the truth this time? I'd say slim to NONE.

This is NOT normal. This is NOT how a mentally stable & innocent person behaves.

[sop]

6. Let's see what Annie Donaldson, McGahn's aide, has to say when she finally testifies

Donaldson made copious contemporaneous notes during McGahn's meetings with Trump, quoted in Mueller's report.

[wasupaloopa]

8. How long does it take trump to come up with a lie? Nano seconds?

[malaise]

9. Why does anyone give a shit when the pathological LIAR

of a con accuses anyone else of lying.

When will the fucking media ignore this fool?

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Ponzi Don is just projecting as usual.

He throws these lie grenades out to see if the media bites. If the Media bites,well he will keep throwing out the same type of grenade.

This has been his M O his whole life. Nothing tougher to deal with than a Narcissistic Sociopath.

[BSdetect]

12. Is there some way to force drumph to be recused from all these matters as he is the subject of inter