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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.”
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 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.
Impeachment case aims to marshal outrage of Capitol attack against Trump By Nicholas Fandos New York Times,Updated February 8, 2021, 2:34 a.m. Email to a Friend In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, then President Donald Trump arrived to speak at a rally in Washington. Arguments begin Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on allegations that he incited the violent mob that stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6.Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press WASHINGTON â When House impeachment managers prosecute former President Donald Trump this week for inciting the Capitol attack, they plan to mount a fast-paced and cinematic case aimed at rekindling the outrage lawmakers experienced on Jan. 6.