Opinion: Trump’s greatest sin wasn’t what we thought it was, ktumulty writes
By Karen Tumulty Karen Tumulty Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 18 at 7:19 PM It has long been presumed that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation was based on an original sin: President Trump’s May 2017 decision to fire James B. Comey as director of the FBI.
Though one of the qualifications required of those who work for this president is a high tolerance for his impulsive and questionable behavior, the White House counsel was shocked when Trump told him, “Mueller has to go.”McGahn refused to carry out an order that, according to the special counsel’s report, he believed was on a par with President Richard M. Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” during the Watergate scandal.
Ultimately, McGahn decided to stay in his job for another 16 months, and Trump dropped his efforts to remove Mueller. But the relationship between the president and his White House counsel remained strained and was made more so when it became known that McGahn had given 30 hours of testimony to Mueller.
Mueller also rejected claims by the president and his allies that he is shielded from obstruction-of-justice laws, writing: “The Constitution does not categorically and permanently immunize the president.”
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