The latest abuse of power scandal within the Trump administration is a reminder of the chaos within the last White House
Former White House counsel Don McGahn. Photo: Getty Images As his campaign’s connections to Russia dominated much of the news cycle in the first half of his presidency, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice attempted to mitigate the damage by subpoenaing phone records to find out who was leaking to whom in the press. Thanks to gag orders expiring on those subpoenas, we are now learning the extent to which Trump’s attorneys general undermined the independence of the DOJ.
Though the efforts were reportedly unsuccessful, they are reminders of the deep distrust within the last administration — none more so than the reports on Sunday that the DOJ seized the records of White House counsel Don McGahn, the man responsible for overseeing the legal issues of the president. McGahn and his wife, Shannon, were reportedly informed by Apple last month that the FBI had subpoenaed their accounts.
The New York Times stated that “it is not clear what FBI agents were scrutinizing,” though the February 23 subpoena date came weeks after a report by the same paper, in which sources within the administration said that Trump ordered McGahn to tell the DOJ to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In the wake of this development, Trump reportedly told aides that McGahn was a “liar” and a “leaker.
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