President’s actions in office, including his firing of FBI Director James B. Comey, were scrutinized by special counsel Robert S. Mueller as possible obstruction of justice.
“We’ve never been able to judge his performance as president effectively because he’s been mired in this scandal,” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said of President Trump, pictured outside the White House on Wednesday.
They had not coordinated an aggressive response machine, as President Bill Clinton’s aides did in anticipation of independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s 1998 report about Clinton’s relationship with White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky. Surrogates were not mobilized in advance. Talking points were not distributed. A report was prepared to counter Mueller’s findings — but there is internal debate about whether to release it.
Some in Trump’s orbit privately griped that the absence of a detailed plan was business as usual for an administration that pings from crisis to crisis. Others noted that Trump’s advisers and lawyers were operating at a disadvantage: They, like the rest of the nation, do not know what the report says — and until Friday, did not have a sense of when it would land.
Trump called the investigation a hoax, denounced it as a “witch hunt” and turned “no collusion” into a defiant mantra. But Comey later told Congress that Trump had earlier asked him to pledge his loyalty to the president and drop an investigation of former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn. Trump denied that, saying he did not ask Comey to ease up on his investigation of Flynn.James B. Comey is pictured outside his home in McLean, Va., in May 2017, shortly he was fired as FBI director. At the time, White House aides said Trump had dismissed Comey at the urging of senior Justice Department officials.
As Mueller’s inquiry intensified, Trump kept telling his lawyers he wanted to take a more aggressive stance. The president also attacked Rosenstein as a member of the “deep state,” suggesting that he was part of a cabal of bureaucrats out to undermine him, and considered removing him at various times, according to people familiar with his views. And Trump sought the firing of Mueller, although he backed off after facing resistance from the White House counsel’s office.
He also has attacked the late senator John McCain , repeatedly lashing out at him on Twitter throughout the past week. Aides said Trump’s anger was fueled by a news report about McCain’s decision to give the FBI a copy of a dossier about Russia’s support for Trump after the 2016 election. Giuliani said the president’s team thinks there is only a “remote” chance that Mueller will argue that there was any collusion between Trump associates and Russia. He anticipates that the report will be succinct.
“We’ve prepared what I would call an all-contingencies report. Just assume the worst — and let’s answer it all,” Giuliani said. “Let’s say they say ‘no collusion, no obstruction.’ I don’t think we’d issue a report. What are we going to do, disagree with them? It’s very hard to say what we are going to do until we see what they’re going to do.”
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