Speaking of obstruction of justice...

[pdq]

...in case anyone had any doubt that Trump tried to fire Mueller, the NYT article yesterday fleshes out some details:

Mr. Trump’s interactions with [WH lawyer] Mr. McGahn unfolded in the days after the Jan. 25 Times article, which said that Mr. McGahn threatened to quit last June after the president asked him to fire the special counsel. After the article was published, the White House staff secretary, Rob Porter, told Mr. McGahn that the president wanted him to release a statement saying that the story was not true, the people said.

Mr. Porter, who resigned last month amid a domestic abuse scandal, told Mr. McGahn the president had suggested he might “get rid of” Mr. McGahn if he chose not to challenge the article, the people briefed on the conversation said.

Mr. McGahn did not publicly deny the article, and the president later confronted him in the Oval Office in front of the White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, according to the people.

The president said he had never ordered Mr. McGahn to fire the special counsel. Mr. McGahn replied that the president was wrong and that he had in fact asked Mr. McGahn in June to call the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, to tell him that the special counsel had a series of conflicts that disqualified him for overseeing the investigation and that he had to be dismissed.

Trump to McGhan: Fire this guy Mueller
McGhan: Can't do that.
Trump: If you don't, I may have to fire you!
McGhan : (Oh please, oh please). Nope, still can't. I'd quit first.
Trump: Well...I never asked you to fire him, then.
McGhan: :S

[rjmacs]

You can't just make something in the past go away because you say it didn't happen in front of someone new.

OR CAN YOU?

[cbelt3]

rjmacs wrote:
You can't just make something in the past go away because you say it didn't happen in front of someone new.

OR CAN YOU?

FAKE NEWS !

Or course you can !
War is Peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.

[pdq]

McGhan is interesting. While I despise his main client, it seems like he's decided he's not going to be Trump's Roy Cohn.

[Speedy]

rjmacs wrote:
You can't just make something in the past go away because you say it didn't happen in front of someone new.

OR CAN YOU?

Two year olds do it all the time.

[Ombligo]

Unless both the house and senate flip, it doesn't matter.