Trump Claims He ‘Didn’t Need McGahn’ To Fire Mueller: ‘I Could Have Done It Myself!’

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 24: U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions while departing the White House April 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump is scheduled to travel to Georgia later today.(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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In a flurry of tweets Thursday morning, President Trump not only suggested that he didn’t need ex-White House counsel Don McGahn to do his dirty work for him, but also signaled that he hasn’t read special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

Trump blamed the media for “incorrectly” reporting he directed McGahn to fire Mueller, a series of actions that are laid out in extensive detail in Mueller’s report. Trump went on to defend his “legal right” to fire Mueller and said he could’ve done it without McGahn if he really wanted to.

“Nevertheless, Mueller was NOT fired and was respectfully allowed to finish his work on what I, and many others, say was an illegal investigation,” he said, despite his near-constant attacks on the probe he coined a “witch hunt.”

Trump hasn’t let up on his Twitter assaults since Mueller’s report was released last week. When the report came out he immediately changed his tune, stepping away from the “total exoneration” narrative he propelled when the attorney general released his summary of the report and diving head-first into “crazy Mueller report” talking points.

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  1. Tantrum Blobby has his usual tantrum .

  2. He did not need Cohen to pay off Stormy either, he could have done it himself. But Trump likes other people committing the crimes for him.

  3. I don’t think Trump composed any of those tweets. One of his ghost tweeters was working the keypad here.

  4. I don’t know … although there are no misspellings (I’m waiting for “DRANE”), they do have the inimitable whining. Good to see he’ll never get past this. If his babysitters think keeping McGahn and others from testifying is going to make this go away, I am amused that he never will. Ever.

  5. Really love these sentence structures huh?
    “didn’t need” “could have”, etc. All hypothetical, like his big wall.

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