McGahn had compared any effort to remove Mueller as comparable to the 'Saturday Night Massacre' under Nixon
over the extent of oversight Congress could force on the executive branch.
McGahn later told Trump's chief of staff that the president had asked him to "do crazy s---," according to Mueller’s report. “‘Inflection point,’ with that I meant a point of no return," McGahn told lawmakers. "If the Acting Attorney General received what he thought was a direction from the counsel to the President to remove a special counsel, he would either have to remove the special counsel or resign. We are still talking about the ‘Saturday Night Massacre’ decades and decades later.”
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