ABC aired another part of George Stephanopolous’ interview with Donald Trump today and it’s again making headlines. This time Trump accuses former White House Counsel Don McGahn of lying. It happened as Stephanopolous asked about part of the Mueller report. Here’s part of the exchange:
GS: “He lays out a lot of evidence including the episode where you ask your White House Counsel Don McGahn… you tell him, Mueller has to go and call him twice and say Mueller has to go. Call me when it’s done.”
DT: “I was never going to fire Mueller. I never suggested firing Mueller.”
GS: “That’s not what he says.”
DT: “I don’t care what he says. It doesn’t matter.”
GS: “Why would Don McGahn lie under oath…”
DT: “He wanted it to look like he was a good lawyer…”
.@ABC EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump tells @GStephanopoulos he never suggested firing special counsel Robert Mueller—and what ex-White House counsel Don McGahn told Mueller “doesn’t matter." https://t.co/jFVGSSMuyr pic.twitter.com/pXlZ2Z5B4F
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 14, 2019
If you've served in the Trump Administration, do you lose your sense of patriotism and self-respect? Why doesn't Don McGahn simply issue a statement making clear he didn't, as Trump asserts, lie under oath to the Special Counsel? Doesn't he owe that to the nation–and to himself?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 14, 2019
Watch more of the interview above.
