Following reports in December that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team had subpoenaed a bank for records on President Donald Trump, the President told advisers that he wanted to shut down Mueller’s investigation, the New York Times reported late Tuesday.
Reports at the time indicated that Deutsche Bank received subpoenas for records related to Trump and his family. This set Trump off, and he pushed for Mueller to go, according to the New York Times.
Trump backed down off his plan to quash the Mueller probe after his lawyers scrambled to find out more about the subpoenas and learned from the special counsel’s office that the reports were incorrect, according to the New York Times. After the reports were released in early December, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow told the press that the reports were inaccurate.
The President also reportedly tried to fire Mueller in June 2017 until White House Counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit.
Read the entire New York Times story here.
If someone repeatedly acts like he’s got a lot of skeletons in his closet…
“We’re only going after Jared right now, Mr. President. Ivanka is safe----and she may soon be single, if you know what I mean.”
I think this article is a bit of hyperbole. As Michael Wolff has written and said many times, firing Mueller (and Rosenstein) has been a constant refrain for Trump. It’s a bit like Gollum saying ‘my precious’ in reference to the ring of power in Lord of the Rings.
The end game is a bit hazy to me. Trump and his whole family are criminals and will be exposed by state and federal charges most likely involving money laundering, tax evasion, fraud and likely foreign involvement in campaigns. Republicans will pretend it’s not really a problem and that the investigation is political. Charges will be brought. Republicans will shrug and mumble something about Benghazi or email servers. Then what?
Popcorn?