Trump engaged in 'multiple acts' to try to influence law enforcement, but his efforts were 'mostly unsuccessful' because his aides refused to carry out the orders, according to the Mueller report
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"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," the special counsel found.Trump Asked White House Aide to Attest to Something She Didn't Know About—After She Was Fired
Ms. McFarland was asked to write the letter after she was fired from her White House job shortly after Mr. Flynn's resignation. But she was also was told told by White House officials she would be offered an ambassadorship to Singapore, the report says. At the same time, the president asked then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to have Ms. McFarland write the letter.
"The evidence does not establish that the president was trying to have McFarland lie," the special counsel report concludes. "The president's request, however, was sufficiently irregular that McFarland—who did not know about the full extent of Flynn's communications with the president and thus could not make the representation that the president wanted—felt the need to draft an internal memorandum documenting the president's request.
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