Posted on 04/21/2019 2:32:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Guess who's emerged as the shiny, white knight of the Mueller report: former White House Counsel Don McGahn.
Yes, my man McGahn, the guy I've been excoriating the past few years (click here, here).
Since the report came out, McGahn has been bathing in positive coverage: "Don McGahn May Have Single-handedly Saved Donald Trump's Presidency," blares CNN. And President Obama's White House counsel Bob Bauer writes in the New York Times that "we should be grateful for his resistance to presidential wrongdoing."
So what did McGahn do that's so amazing? Stop Trump from nuking Mexico? Thwart the president's plan to gift Alaska to Russia?
No. McGahn simply refused Trump's request to lie.
For those of you who haven't slogged through the Mueller tome, here's what the relevant section of the report says: In early 2018, after the New York Times reported that Trump had ordered McGahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump pressured McGahn to deny the story.
At first, Trump deployed his minions to twist McGahn's arm. He asked his "personal counsel" (mysteriously unnamed in the report) to tell McGahn's lawyer that McGahn issue "a statement denying that he had been asked to fire the Special Counsel and that he had threatened to quit in protest." Next, Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to use her persuasive powers on McGahn. Then, Trump got White House aide Rob Porter to order McGahn to "write a letter to the file 'for our records' '' to deny the news report.
In each situation, McGahn hung tough and refused to comply.
The climax, of course, was when Trump finally asked McGahn at a meeting "whether he would 'do a correction,' and McGahn said no."
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