The president's critics are trying to build an obstruction case based on reading Trump's mind.
The thing to bear in mind is that the president of the United States does not "Attempt" to fire anyone in the executive branch.
"Attempt" is the foundation on which the New York Times' Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman build their blockbuster report this weekend about the decision by President Trump - apparently on the advice of his first team of lawyers - to waive executive privilege and attorney-client privilege so that prosecutors on the staff of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III could interview White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn II. I will in another column address the significance of the waiver.
In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president's furor toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it.
The Resistance will be disappointed to learn that it is not enough to claim that President Trump is corrupt in general.
Even if such an inquiry were appropriate, by the Justice Department's own logic, a federal prosecutor must assume that the president's motives were proper if legitimate reasons could have supported them.
The Times claims that White House counsel McGahn has intervened in the president's "Attempts" to fire Mueller.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/donald-mcgahn-report-trump-critics-try-to-read-mind-motives/
The thing to bear in mind is that the president of the United States does not "Attempt" to fire anyone in the executive branch.
"Attempt" is the foundation on which the New York Times' Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman build their blockbuster report this weekend about the decision by President Trump - apparently on the advice of his first team of lawyers - to waive executive privilege and attorney-client privilege so that prosecutors on the staff of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III could interview White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn II. I will in another column address the significance of the waiver.
In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president's furor toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it.
The Resistance will be disappointed to learn that it is not enough to claim that President Trump is corrupt in general.
Even if such an inquiry were appropriate, by the Justice Department's own logic, a federal prosecutor must assume that the president's motives were proper if legitimate reasons could have supported them.
The Times claims that White House counsel McGahn has intervened in the president's "Attempts" to fire Mueller.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/donald-mcgahn-report-trump-critics-try-to-read-mind-motives/
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