In an interview with CBS, the acting White House chief of staff also emphasized that President Trump and his son are “two different people.”
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow May 9 at 8:07 AM Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Wednesday criticized Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee for not informing him that President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. would be subpoenaed by the panel as part of its ongoing probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
The Intelligence Committee is seeking additional closed-door testimony by Trump Jr., who has been a focus of several probes — including special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation — over his involvement in a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer who allegedly had promised incriminating information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Mulvaney said in Wednesday’s CBS interview that although he was not told that Trump Jr. would be subpoenaed, he did not know whether others in the White House had been informed. Mueller declined to say one way or the other whether Trump should have been charged, citing long-standing Justice Department guidance that sitting presidents cannot be indicted. This week, more than 450 former federal prosecutors who worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations signed a statement asserting that Trump would have been charged with obstruction if he were not president.
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