Analysis: Trump wants his exoneration and to disparage it, too.
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 9 at 2:00 PM President Trump offered on Thursday what could be thought of as his closing argument on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian interference.
The question Trump was asked on Thursday was whether he would allow Mueller to testify before Congress. “I could have stopped everything,” Trump added. “I didn’t have to give them a document. I gave them one-point-five million documents. I gave them White House counsel. I gave them other lawyers — anybody you want, you can talk to.”
“We had somebody that is in love with James Comey,” Trump continued. “They were very good friends, supposedly best friends. Maybe not, but supposedly best friends. You look at the picture file, and you see hundreds of pictures of him and Comey.” Former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon, though, told investigators that “although the White House thought about beseeching Mueller to become Director again” — Comey had replaced him in the role — Mueller “did not come in looking for the job.”"You had other people made big contributions to Hillary Clinton's campaign," he said."They were angry Democrats in, I think, almost all cases.
"The President's advisors pushed back on his assertion of conflicts, telling the President they did not count as true conflicts," the report states. It quotes Bannon calling the golf-course conflict claim"ridiculous and petty."
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