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Don McGahn Has Not Turned on Trump
Slate ^ | Aug. 19, 2018 | Mark Joseph Stern

Posted on 08/19/2018 11:09:17 PM PDT by Innovative

The White House counsel has figured out how to appear transparent without giving Mueller the information he needs.

Has Don McGahn turned on Donald Trump? On Saturday, the New York Times published a lengthy story suggesting as much, hinting that the White House counsel may have reached the limits of his loyalty to the president. Reporters Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt detail McGahn’s assistance to Mueller’s Russia probe, including 30 hours of voluntary interviews with investigators. Trump, they write, allowed McGahn to speak to Mueller’s team, though the president may not have grasped the extent of his cooperation.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: denial; donaldmcgahn; donmcgahn; emmetflood; jamescomey; lisapage; maggiehaberman; mcgahn; michaelschmidt; mueller; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; peterstrzok; recusal; recused; robertmueller; trump; trumprussia; tycobb; witchhunt
Apparently the NYT was just engaging in wishful thinking that McGahn turned against Trump.
1 posted on 08/19/2018 11:09:18 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

We called that out as fake news as soon as it hit FR. No sourcing other than “persons familiar with the investigation”.


2 posted on 08/19/2018 11:11:42 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Innovative

Note the assumption that Trump has something to hide.


3 posted on 08/19/2018 11:24:46 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: fortheDeclaration

The writer is just as loony as Haberman and Schmidt. He criticizes their premises and then give his on weird ones, always assuming in “harsh” terms that Trump did something wrong.

You can’t have it both ways and to quote the sleazy lawyer Bob Bauer is like quoting Jeffrey Dahmer on proper eating etiquette.

If your premises are wrong in the beginning, they aren’t going to be correct later on.

This is a sign of mental illness, perhaps Trump Derangement Syndrome or just mental diseases suffered by NYT writers and Slate writers.


4 posted on 08/20/2018 12:14:31 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

>> The writer is just as loony as ...

Well... Slate pretty much sucks ass.


5 posted on 08/20/2018 12:41:17 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Innovative

God, I hate the media.


6 posted on 08/20/2018 1:12:23 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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To: Innovative

Maggie Haberman is all over the Wikileaks emails and gets identified by Q as a sympathetic Hillary Clinton relaible operator in the press.


7 posted on 08/20/2018 4:11:34 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

reliable operator


8 posted on 08/20/2018 4:12:11 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Innovative

The New York Times yesterday published a story saying anonymous sources declared that Melania’s furniture for the private quarters were overruled by brutal Donald Trump and now she’s stuck with horrible gold Louis XIV chairs that he favors. It wasn’t until the 16th paragraph that a named source denied this.

The Times lies for a living.


9 posted on 08/20/2018 4:31:09 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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LOL! You don’t need Q to tell you that. Just read Haberman’s stories.


10 posted on 08/20/2018 4:32:06 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: fortheDeclaration
Note the assumption that Trump has something to hide.

And that he is stupid. Note this gem from the article:

"Trump, they write, allowed McGahn to speak to Mueller’s team, though the president may not have grasped the extent of his cooperation."

11 posted on 08/20/2018 5:48:38 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

...always assuming in “harsh” terms that Trump did something wrong.


Well, since he’s human, he almost certainly did do SOMETHING wrong. Tucker Carlson spoke to this when the Mueller investigation started. He argued that, for all intents and purposes, all powerful people have skeletons in their closet, and if an investigation like this happens, it WILL find something, barring back room deals that keep it high level.

But Trump is not part of the deep state so he would probably be toast. Except that is not happening.


12 posted on 08/20/2018 6:20:56 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Innovative

See how Mueller went running to the NY Times to try and damage Trump.
Leaky prick.


13 posted on 08/20/2018 6:21:34 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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Has Don McGahn turned on Donald Trump? On Saturday, the New York Times published a lengthy story suggesting as much, hinting that the White House counsel may have reached the limits of his loyalty to the president

Insert George Papadopolous for McGain and you have another nothing burger.

14 posted on 08/20/2018 6:31:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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