U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had never ordered his White House counsel at the time, Donald McGahn, to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, as described in the report Mueller wrote about his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. “As has been incorrectly reported by the Fake News Media, I never told then White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller, even though I had the legal right to do so. If I wanted to fire Mueller, I didn’t need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself,” Trump wrote on Twitter. Trump also tried to get McGahn to dispute media reports that the president had attempted to fire Mueller, the report said. The report also concluded there was not enough evidence to establish the Trump campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Moscow.

Source: The Star April 25, 2019 13:30 UTC