Sources: Trump unsettled by McGahn's 30 hours with the special counsel

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak and Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Updated 4:56 PM ET, Mon August 20, 2018

Washington (CNN) - White House counsel Don McGahn's 30 hours of conversations with special counsel Robert Mueller's team have unnerved President Donald Trump, who didn't know the full extent of McGahn's discussions, two people familiar with his thinking said.

The meetings only add complications to the already-fraught relationship between the President and the White House's top lawyer. And as nervous aides await a verdict in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial and watch with trepidation the inauspicious public relations blitz carried by lead attorney Rudy Giuliani, uncertainty surrounding the President's handling of the Russia investigation abounds.

Trump was spending another weekend at his New Jersey golf club when The New York Times first reported McGahn's cooperation with Mueller's office, which is investigating Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.

The President was unsettled by the notion that he didn't know everything McGahn said to the special counsel during their interviews, the sources said. And while he had approved the cooperation, Trump did not know the conversations stretched for 30 hours or that his legal team didn't conduct a full debriefing with McGahn after the fact.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/20/politics/trump-mcgahn-30-hours/index.html

[madaboutharry]

1. Of course he is.

Trump came to Washington thinking he was going to run The White House the same way he ran Trump Tower. He thought he would be in complete control and he is now suffering from whiplash over the fact that he is not a King and that the United States Government doesn't work like Trump, Inc.

Take note of the fact that he named his ugly building "Trump Tower." I think he called it that because towers are found in castles and castles are where Kings live. Another thought to add to all the things that make Trump a weirdo.

[sheshe2]

8. I thought...

Take note of the fact that he named his ugly building "Trump Tower." I think he called it that because towers are found in castles and castles are where Kings live. Another thought to add to all the things that make Trump a weirdo.

I thought he saw himself as Rapunzel waiting in the tower for his Prince to rescue him. With that hair weave he has, I am sure it could reach the street from the penthouse. Guess it was Putin that climbed up.

[Snellius]

2. Don't worry. They were probably just chatting over brandy about what a great guy he was.

For THIRTY hours!

[brush]

3. McCahn can't still be on his job at the WH. In all the coverage I haven't heard if he is or isn't.

[reACTIONary]

13. The White House Counsel is .....

The White House Counsel is a staff appointee of the President of the United States whose role is to advise the President on all legal issues concerning the President and his Administration. The current White House Counsel is Don McGahn. Wikipedia

[brush]

15. Is he still on the job at the WH? In other words, has trump fired him?

[waddirum]

16. Yes

He is still there.

[Racerdog1]

4. Great!

One more thing to get the orange asshole's blood pressure up. Stroke out already!

[mopinko]

5. more consciousness of guilt.

[Stuart G]

6. A simple idea...If Trump didn't do anything wrong, what is he worried about?

Trump says he didn't do anything wrong...No collusion, no illegal activities during campaign, and he calls Mueller's investigation a "witch hunt"

If Trump didn't do anything wrong, what is he worried about?

If that is true, that Trump and his crowd will be totally innocent. If that is a lie, then some of his crowd will be found guilty by a jury and go to jail. It really is that simple.

[HurricaneWarning]

10. Agreed

Ty Cobb took him at his word and so he said they didn't need to use executive privilege. Trump thought he got one past him. Karma is a bitch.

[Scurrilous]

7. K&R

[Cold War Spook]

9. Trump thinks McGahn is his lawyer.

Does he even know what people in the WH do?

[Danascot]

11. Since he unsettles us half a dozen times a day

I'm glad to hear he's unsettled.

Plus I think he's going to be increasingly unsettled from here on out

[msongs]

12. nice analysis and opinion piece nt

[truthisfreedom]

14. When he's done firing every lawyer and revoking every security clearance

He can sit alone on the floor of the offal office surrounded by broken golf clubs, McDonald’s wrappers and KFC buckets empty but for bones and grease, dirty napkins and a single stained translation of My New Order.