Donald Trump Jr., at a meeting with Trump campaign members, announced “that he had a lead on negative information about the Clinton Foundation” in the days before the Trump Tower meeting, Mueller wrote in his report
In May 2017, after President Trump learned from then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had appointed Mueller, Trump “slumped back in his chair and said, ‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm f***ed.’”Trump called former White House lawyer Don McGahn at home and directed him to call the acting attorney general and say Mueller"had conflicts of interest and must be removed." McGahn refused.
The report describes White House officials learning — sometimes with shock — about the meeting. For example, then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus first learned about the meeting in late June 2017 from Fox News host Sean Hannity . When Trump learned the New York Times was working on a story about the Trump Tower meeting, Trump initially directed Hicks not to comment — which she said was odd, according to Mueller, “because he usually considered not responding to the press to be the ultimate sin.”
Trump Jr. expressed concern about that statement, however, insisting the word “primarily” be inserted to suggest the meeting included other topics aside from just adoption.
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