Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report revealed a pervasive culture of lying in the White House, with senior government officials routinely mangling the truth to serve President Trump.
Addressing reporters from the White House lectern, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a startling claim shortly after President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey two years ago.
Sometimes the president did the lying himself. Sometimes he had others tell lies for him. And sometimes people just lied because they thought it was required of them. After an Oval Office meeting on March 22, 2017, the president asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to say publicly that Trump didn’t have any links to Russia, the report said. The claim would have been false, since Trump unsuccessfully sought to build a luxury skyscraper in MoscowCoats declined, telling Trump “it was not his role to make a public statement on the Russia investigation,” according to the report.
Days later, when Mueller was appointed special counsel, White House officials told reporters that Trump was undisturbed by the development. In fact,“This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency,” he said, according to notes taken by an aide. Priebus was concerned that the president planned to use the letter as leverage over Sessions, and he asked about it during the trip. Trump falsely said the document was back in his White House residence.
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