President Trump’s press secretary is among the many senior Trump officials who have been interviewed by Special Counsel investigators.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators has interviewed White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, CNN reported Friday.
Sanders is the latest high-level Trump world official to be ensnared in the Special Counsel’s investigation.
The revelation that press secretary Sarah Sanders has been interviewed by the Special Counsel suggests the already broad investigation into Russian collusion and obstruction of justice by President Trump is even broader than previously thought.
It is likely that the Special Counsel is interested in Sanders’ knowledge of and involvement in crafting false public statements by Trump and the White House as part of a likely obstruction probe.
According to the report, Sanders’ interview took place late last year around the same time that former Chief of Staff John Kelly was interviewed and long after an earlier round of interviews with Hope Hicks and Sean Spicer.
The report went on the note that after initially objecting to the interview request from the Special Counsel the White House eventually relented and granted the interviews.
As CNN notes, “one focus of investigators has been conflicting public statements by President Donald Trump and his team that could be seen as an effort to obstruct justice.”
Read the full CNN report here.
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