The revelations throughout Robert Mueller’s 448-page report may not take down the president. But they could make things very awkward for the Trump associates who cooperated with the investigation.
The people close to Trump who offered damaging or embarrassing testimony include his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his 2016 deputy campaign manager and confidant Corey Lewandowski, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Trump ally.
Rick Dearborn, Trump’s former deputy chief of staff, told investigators that he was once asked by Lewandowski to inform the attorney general that the president wanted the scope of Mueller’s investigation to be limited to “future election interference,” according to the report. Trump had initially asked Lewandowski — with whom he still speaks regularly — to deliver the message.
Another episode contained in the report highlights the president’s early attempts to end the Russia probe by asking staff if they thought that certain individuals he was considering putting in charge of the probe would agree to ensure its timely conclusion.
In other cases, the contents of the report underscore the credibility issues that some Trump officials have faced throughout their tenure. Sanders, who has repeatedly been accused of making false statements to reporters and contradicting the president’s legal team, acknowledged when she sat down with investigators that a statement she made to the press in May 2017 was entirely unfounded.
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