EXCLUSIVE: President Trump tells GStephanopoulos that he 'wasn't gonna fire' special counsel Robert Mueller because 'I watched Richard Nixon go around firing everybody, and that didn't work out too well.'
President Donald Trump told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that he did not fire special counsel Robert Mueller because"that didn't work out too well" for former President Richard Nixon.
Trump also told Stephanopoulos that, in his opinion, Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the executive branch and outlines the powers of the presidency, gave him the authority to fire the special counsel. "I was never going to fire Mueller. I never suggested firing Mueller," Trump told Stephanopoulos, adding that "it doesn't matter" what McGahn said under oath.
The report goes on to say that under the United States' system of checks and balances,"Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office." "Excuse me. Pursuing, what does pursuing mean?" Trump said."Do you know that I don’t even think they had a site? I don’t even think they knew who was gonna do the deal. It was a concept of a deal, more of a concept than anything else. It was a concept of a deal someplace in Russia, probably in Moscow, and I was looking at places all over the world."
It goes on to say that Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney,"spearheaded" the efforts and reported updates to the Trump Organization, including directly to then-candidate Trump. Cohen also told lawmakers in closed and open sessions that he kept two of the president's adult children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, briefed about the Moscow project.
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