Trump wanted ally to lead probe targeting him: report 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseUS President Donald Trump denied a report Tuesday that said he had sought to install an ally to oversee an investigation into payoffs to two women during the 2016 presidential campaign. Late last year, Trump asked Matthew Whitaker — who at the time was his acting attorney general — whether a sympathetic prosecutor could head up the probe, The New York Times reported. Trump denied having made such a request. No, I didn’t.”According to the Times, Trump asked Whitaker if Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York and a Trump supporter, could oversee the probe.

Source: Manila Bulletin February 20, 2019 02:01 UTC