How White House counsel Don McGahn was ordered by President to fire ...

White House counsel Don McGahn deliberately disobeyed President Trump when he tried to interfere with the special counsel's  investigation, Robert Mueller’s report released Thursday shows.

McGahn refused to ‘do crazy s**t’ by trying to get Mueller fired.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, deputy national security advisor K.T. McFarland and deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn also declined to act on Trump’s orders, Mueller reports.

McGahn fell afoul of the president after Trump called him at home on a Saturday in June 2017 instructing him to tell acting attorney general Rod Rosenstein that Mueller— who had only been appointed a month earlier — had a conflict of interest and had to be fired.

Mueller's report reveals that Trump was probably saved from worse misconduct by top aides who simply refused to carry out Trump’s orders to obstruct justice, key among them legal counsel Don McGahn

The President called McGahn a second time, McGahn recalled that the President was more direct, saying something like, 'Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can't be the Special Counsel'

The President called McGahn a second time, McGahn recalled that the President was more direct, saying something like, 'Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can't be the Special Counsel'

‘McGahn considered the President's request to be an inflection point and he wanted to hit the brakes,’ Mueller wrote.

‘When the President called McGahn a second time to follow up on the order to call the Department of Justice, McGahn recalled that the President was more direct, saying something like, "Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can't be the Special Counsel.”’

McGahn decided he should quit because he ‘felt trapped’ by Trump’s demands. He then called his lawyer and told his chief of staff Annie Donaldson that he would resign before driving to his office to pack his belongings and submit his resignation letter.

‘Donaldson recalled that McGahn told her the President had called and demanded he contact the Department of Justice and that the President wanted him to do something that McGahn did not want to do. 

'McGahn told Donaldson that the President had called at least twice and in one of the calls asked "have you done it?"

Two days after Trump’s meeting with McGahn, Mueller reports, the president met his former campaign chief Corey Lewandowski and dictated a message that he ordered him to take to Sessions, who he had already attacked for recusing himself from overseeing Mueller’s probe

Two days after Trump’s meeting with McGahn, Mueller reports, the president met his former campaign chief Corey Lewandowski and dictated a message that he ordered him to take to Sessions, who he had already attacked for recusing himself from overseeing Mueller’s probe

Mueller said McGahn did not tell Donaldson what it was that Trump wanted him to do because he was consciously trying not to involve her in the investigation.

Later that evening McGahn called then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and Trump strategist Steve Bannon to tell them of his decision.

‘Priebus recalled that McGahn said that the President had asked him to "do crazy s**t," but he thought McGahn did not tell him the specifics of the President' s request because McGahn was trying to protect Priebus from what he did not need to know.’

Both Priebus and Bannon urged him not to resign and, in the end, he decided to stay on.

‘McGahn did not carry out the direction, however, deciding that he would resign rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre,’ referring to

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