Former White House Counsel Don McGahn testified to the House Judiciary Committee last week that there was 'never really a good beginning, middle, and end' to conversations with former President Donald Trump.
but told him to avoid inviting Comey to dinner to avoid creating the perception of an"improper" relationship.
Don McGahn, who served as Trump's White House counsel from January 2017 to October 2018, made the remarks during a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee last week. The transcript of the interview, which occurred two years after McGahn defied a Congressional subpoena to testify on matters related to the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, was released on Wednesday.
McGahn told the committee that he"was in support of removing Comey" and had"told the president as much." Comey was investigating alleged Russian interference before the investigation was handed off to Mueller following his May 2017 dismissal.
"I was not at the dinner. I was not, as far as I know, part of the invite," McGahn said."The idea of talking to the FBI Director in and of itself is not a problem. But given the circumstances here, of course, as a lawyer, I had concerns that this would appear to be something that could be problematic given the rest of the atmospherics."
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