“The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.'
President Donald Trump might be in substantially more legal trouble if not for top administration aides and officials, according to the redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.
But at least some of those efforts appear to have been stymied by members of the president’s own staff, who chose not to heed his orders. Mueller’s report recounted “10 episodes” involving Trump and questions of obstruction of justice. Of those instances, Mueller cited a number of Trump administration officials who resisted the president’s efforts to limit the investigation.White House officials, including the current acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Uttam Dhillon, worked to impede Trump’s firing of Comey, according to the report.
When the White House wanted to put out a story saying it was Rosenstein’s idea to fire Comey, Rosenstein said he wouldn’t participate in that “false story.” Trump called Rosenstein as he was watching Fox News and asked Rosenstein to hold a press conference, but the deputy attorney general said that wasn’t a good idea.
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