NY Times Just Published A Bombshell On Trump Obstruction Of Justice Probe

Trump ordered his White House Counsel to stop Attorney General from recusing himself, demanded Sessions protect him from the investigation. 

Donald Trump ordered his White House Counsel Don McGahn in March to stop Jeff Sessions from recusing himself in the Russia investigation.

And after McGahn failed to prevent Sessions from recusing himself, Trump erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials. Trump told them he needed his Attorney General to protect him.

According to a bombshell new report by The New York Times, “President Trump gave firm instructions in March to the White House’s top lawyer: stop the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, from recusing himself in the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s associates had helped a Russian campaign to disrupt the 2016 election.”

The New York Times report goes on to note that despite the fact that massive public pressure was building on Sessions to recuse himself, Don McGahn “carried out the president’s orders and lobbied Mr. Sessions to remain in charge of the inquiry, according to two people with knowledge of the episode.”

The New York Times also reports that that “Mr. Mueller has also substantiated claims that Mr. Comey made in a series of memos describing troubling interactions with the president before he was fired in May.”

Other important details from the bombshell New York Times story:

  • “The president’s determination to fire Mr. Comey even led one White House lawyer to take the extraordinary step of misleading Mr. Trump about whether he had the authority to remove him.”
  • “The New York Times has also learned that four days before Mr. Comey was fired, one of Mr. Sessions’s aides asked a congressional staff member whether he had damaging information about Mr. Comey, part of an apparent effort to undermine the FBI director.”
  • After FBI Director James Comey’s public testimony, Donald Trump began to openly discuss firing him.”This unnerved some inside the White House counsel’s office, and even led one of Mr. McGahn’s deputies to mislead the president about his authority to fire the FBI director.”

Read the full New York Times story here.

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