The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website January 27, 2018:
President Trump last June sought to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III but backed off after White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn threatened to resign. (Bastien Inzaurralde, Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post)
Even as President Trump’s falsehoods go, this one was pretty blatant: Two months after he unsuccessfully tried to fire Robert S. Mueller III, Trump denied that he had even considered doing such a thing.
“I haven’t given it any thought,” Trump told reporters in Bedminster, N.J., in August. “Well, I’ve been reading about it from you people. You say, ‘Oh, I’m going to dismiss him.’ No, I’m not dismissing anybody.” Continue reading “Could lying about trying to fire Mueller put Trump in even more hot water?”