U.S. House Democrats finally get to interview former White House counsel McGahn

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Former Trump White House Counsel Don McGahn is testifying Friday before the House Judiciary Committee about former U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to obstruct the Russia investigation, in a closed-door interview that's the culmination of a two-year court fight Democrats waged against the Trump administration.

then were nearly eclipsed from public discussion during inter-branch power struggles in 2019 and 2020.

Between 2017 and 2019, McGahn told the special counsel he refused to following the President's directions to fire Mueller "deciding that he would resign rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre," Mueller's report said, referring to one of the McGahn was also privy to the Justice Department, White House and Trump's responses to then-national security adviser Michael Flynn negotiating with Russia before Trump took office and lying to the vice president and the FBI, Mueller wrote.Democrats have been seeking McGahn's testimony since shortly after Mueller's investigation ended in spring 2019, when he defied their subpoena.

House Democrats have continued to pursue multiple investigative threads related to Trump through the courts, including the McGahn testimony, Trump's tax returns and other financial documents.

 

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