Mueller Wants To Question Priebus, Spicer And Four Others In Russia Probe: Report
Mueller is coming for you.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has informed the White House that his team would like to interview six senior current and former advisors to President Trump as part of his investigation into Russia’s election attack, according to the Washington Post.
Mueller would like interview former press secretary Sean Spicer and former chief of staff Reince Priebus as well as Donald Trump’s new communications director, Hope Hicks.
People familiar with Mueller’s investigation say that each of the six advisors was involved in internal discussions related to incidents the Special Counsel is focusing on. Among those incidents are Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director and the Michael Flynn scandal.
According to the Washington Post, “Mueller’s interest in the aides, including trusted adviser Hope Hicks, former press secretary Sean Spicer and former chief of staff Reince Priebus, reflects how the probe that has dogged Trump’s presidency is starting to penetrate a closer circle of aides around the president. Each of the six advisers was privy to important internal discussions that have drawn the interest of Mueller’s investigators, including his decision in May to fire FBI Director James B. Comey and the White House’s initial inaction following warnings that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had withheld information from the public about his private discussions in December with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, according to people familiar with the probe.”
The individuals that Mueller wants to interview are also connected to internal White House communications that the Speical Counsel has asked the White House to turn over.
“Roughly four weeks ago, the special counsel’s team provided the White House with the names of the first group of current and former Trump advisers and aides whom investigators expect to question. In addition to Priebus, Spicer and Hicks, Mueller has notified the White House he will probably seek to question White House counsel Don McGahn and one of his deputies, James Burnham. Mueller’s office has also told the White House that investigators may want to interview Josh Raffel, a White House spokesman who works closely with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. White House officials are expecting that Mueller will seek additional interviews, possibly with family members, including Kushner, who is a West Wing senior adviser, according to the people familiar with Mueller’s inquiry,” the Washington Post went on to report.
Read the full Washington Post report here.
