Annie Donaldson provided Mueller with some of his most damaging evidence that Trump sought to interfere in the Russia probe. Now the White House is blocking her from providing substantive testimony to the House Judiciary committee.
The White House has blocked a third witness who provided crucial testimony to special counsel Robert Mueller from describing the chaos she witnessed in the West Wing as President Donald Trump sought to assert control over the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Donaldson was among a handful of central witnesses in Mueller’s investigation who provided evidence that Trump might have obstructed justice. The White House had already blocked two others — McGahn and former top adviser Hope Hicks — from providing substantive testimony about their tenure in the White House.
For example, when the committee asked Donaldson about whether Trump’s former aide Rob Porter told McGahn to write a letter, disputing he had been ordered to fire Mueller, Donaldson said she was “generally aware such a conversation took place.” Asked where the “briefing” from Burr took place, Donaldson replied, “To the extent this question refers to contact between Senator Burr and the Office of the White House Counsel on or about March 16, 2017 , that conversation took place by telephone.”Sign Up
But according to the transcript of Donaldson’s responses, the White House invoked “confidentiality interests” rather than its previous claims of “absolute immunity,” which Democrats have vowed to defeat in court. Donaldson provided some of Mueller’s most compelling evidence: voluminous contemporaneous notes describing an atmosphere of chaos in the West Wing as Trump careened between damaging revelations in the Russia probe.
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