He feared his presidency, then only a few months old, was over. The Oval Office scene that day is vividly reconstructed in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, released Thursday. Sessions had stepped away from Russia matters because his work on the Trump campaign raised questions of conflict of interest. The report says that on June 17, 2017, Trump called McGahn at home and directed him to contact Rosenstein and tell him the special counsel must be removed. “You gotta do this,” Trump told McGahn, according to the lawyer’s recollection to Mueller’s team.

Source: National Post April 18, 2019 20:37 UTC