Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump lamented back in 2017 that the appointment of a special counsel would mark the end of his presidency -- and was so furious that he reacted with an expletive, according to the special counsel's redacted report released Thursday. Trump first learned that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel from then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a meeting to interview candidates for FBI director in May 2017, the report said. Also present were Sessions' chief of staff Jody Hunt and then-White House counsel Don McGahn. After Sessions delivered the news, "the President slumped back in his chair," the report said, citing notes from Hunt. Trump became "angry and lambasted" Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, according to Hunt's notes.

Source: CNN April 18, 2019 16:46 UTC