In June of that year, Mueller wrote, Trump directed White House Counsel Don McGahn to call Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversaw the probe, and say that Mueller must be ousted because he had conflicts of interest. While volunteers provided some of those materials — and set aside a number of signs — investigators don’t believe any Trump campaign officials knew the requests were coming from foreign nationals, Mueller wrote. Mueller wrote that he would have exonerated Trump if he could, but he wasn’t able to do that given the evidence he uncovered. He said he was aware of some reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made “complimentary statements” about him. ——For complete coverage of the Mueller report, go tohttps://www.apnews.com/TrumpInvestigations

Source: National Post April 19, 2019 04:16 UTC