Trump chided his own attorney for taking notes: 'I never had a lawyer who took notes'
WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation leaves open the question of whether President Trump’s conduct rose to the level of obstruction of justice, one of many takeaways after a redacted version of the highly anticipated document was released to the public on Thursday.
“The evidence we obtained about the president’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment,” the report stated. “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that conclusion.
The reference to Bork was of his role in ultimately carrying out President Richard Nixon’s order to fire independent prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating Watergate. The episode came to be known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” after Attorney General Eliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than conduct the firing.
Feeling “trapped,” McGahn decided that he would resign rather than carry out the order. He told then Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Special Adviser Steve Bannon that he planned to resign, but did not share details. Yet the next time he say the president, Trump did not ask whether he carried out the order. In fact, around the same time, Chris Christie advised Trump not to fire Mueller. McGahn stayed.
Media outlets raced to read through the two volumes of the report, numbering 448 pages, and quickly zeroed in on the questions of obstruction as well as the extent of interactions that members of Trump’s campaign had to figures or sources linked to the Russian government. Mueller did not find that the campaign engaged in a conspiracy with Russian interests as they attempted to interfere in the 2016 election.
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