Fact-checking President Trump's claim 'I never told Don McGahn to fire Mueller'
In a press gaggle Friday morning, President Donald Trump refuted the claim that he ever told former White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller."I'm a student of history. I see what you get when you fire people and it's not good," Trump told the press, repeating his claim,"I never told Don McGahn to fire Mueller."
The Facts First team investigated this assertion when Trump tweeted it Thursday morning. Here's what we found: Facts first: The Mueller report finds that"substantial evidence" supports the conclusion that Trump directed McGahn to call Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to"have the Special Counsel removed." The report then details how Trump attempted to cover up the episode.
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