While the statement does not ask for or recommend a particular course of action, it stresses that Mr. Trump would have been prosecuted if he were not President. First, an attempt to fire Mr. Mueller and alter the evidence around those attempts. It describes Mr. Trump trying to get his personal counsel Don McGahn to fire Mr. Mueller and write a memo covering it up. Second, the statement describes Mr. Trump’s attempts to get then Attorney-General Jeff Sessions to reverse his decision to recuse himself from the probe, so he could go back to overseeing it and protecting the President, including by limiting the probe’s scope. Third, it describes Mr. Trump’s attempts at intimidation and “the dangling of pardons” in the cases of his fixer, Michael Cohen, and his campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

Source: The Hindu May 07, 2019 15:57 UTC