The Mueller report pulled back the curtain on some of Pres. Trump's false statements. A full rundown:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's"Report On the Investigation Into Russian Interference In the 2016 Presidential Election" fact checks a litany of statements made by the president, his administration and his legal team over the past two years. It presents a definitive account of many of the president’s false statements, based on the recollection of the people who worked with him and testified under oath.
While some of those individuals were charged with lying to investigators about those contacts, the report concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to charge that any of them conspired with the Russian government.Throughout the nearly two-year investigation, the president often derided unfavorable headlines as"fake news.
"The president was not involved in the drafting of the statement," Sekulow said on NBC's 'Meet the Press,' on July 16. The report adds,"The President later told the press that it was"irrelevant" whether he dictated the statement and said, ‘It's a statement to the New York Times ... That's not a statement to a high tribunal of judges.’"The report concludes that significant claims Trump made about his interactions with former FBI Director James Comey were not true.
For one, the report states that the President later"acknowledged to Priebus and McGahn that he in fact spoke to Comey about Flynn in their one-on-one meeting." In all, Mueller laid out five reasons why his office considered Comey’s account as more reliable, on page 45 of Volume II in the report. The report documented that upon the recommendation of confidant and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is now an ABC News contributor, Trump asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to hold a press conference to tell the public that firing Comey was his idea. Christie made the recommendation after Trump told him, falsely, that Trump fired Comey on Rosenstein's recommendation.
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