At the direction of President Trump, White House counsel Don McGahn and other aides made extensive and repeated attempts to prevent then-AG Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia investigation, according to the Mueller report
At the direction of President Trump, White House counsel Don McGahn and other aides made extensive and repeated attempts to prevent then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
Over the course of the rest of the day, McGahn “continued trying on behalf of the President to avert Sessions's recusal,” contacting Sessions' personal counsel and chief of staff, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Sessions himself twice more. Other White House advisers also contacted Sessions that day to oppose his recusal, according what Sessions told Mueller.
That has sparked a debate over whether Barr acted properly in sharing the report with the President's lawyers before sending it to Congress. In his remarks, Barr defended his decision, claiming it was"was consistent with the practice followed under the Ethics in Government act, which permitted individuals named in a report prepared by an Independent Counsel the opportunity to read the report before publication.", since neither he nor Mueller operates under it.
Barr's suggestion that allowing those mentioned in the report to see it before its release"was consistent with" former practices is irrelevant because those practices and the act cited do not apply to Barr and Mueller's authority. Barr is not legally prohibited from allowing people to see the report before releasing it, so his justification for doing such is unnecessary and out of place.
The focus of the Christie interview appears to have been a White House lunch he had with President Donald Trump on February 14, 2017, one day after the resignation of Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Christie also recounted that meal in his book."Now that we fired Flynn, the Russia thing is over,” Trump told Christie, according to Christie.
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