McGahn served as the top lawyer on Trump's 2016 campaign and served as White House counsel until fall 2018.
McGahn prepared a one-line resignation letter after the White House came under pressure to withdraw Trump’s first nomination to the US supreme court, Neil Gorsuch, whom McGahn also had personally picked, according to the book. “Nominating judges was why he had taken the job,” Schmidt writes.
Earlier proceedings in the McGahn case prompted one of the most striking rebukes to the then-President from a federal court, when District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson first ruled that McGahn must testify and the Trump White House couldn't block its former officials from congressional investigations.
The Mueller investigation relied on McGahn as one of its most significant witnesses against Trump. Mueller wrote in 2019 he was documenting the instances of obstruction so that Congress or future investigations could pick up the ball.
As longtime political observer Tomasky notes, Trump used the full force of his presidency -- and attorney-client privilege protections -- to keep McGahn from answering questions before but that was when his legal maneuvering would be paid for by the federal government.
In a column for the New Republic, editor Michael Tomasky asserted that Donald Trump may well come to regret not spending the money needed to block former White House counsel Don McGahn from speaking in private and under oath before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee this Friday.
Washington (CNN) Former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn will testify before the House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors about then-President Donald Trump's attempts to obstruct the Russia investigation, the House and the Justice Department announced in a court filing Wednesday night.
The committee members who interview McGahn can ask him about the incidents documented in the Mueller report of Trump's attempts to fire special counsel Robert Mueller and block the Russia investigation, and about the Mueller investigation's accuracy. The Justice Department can assert executive privilege or McGahn can decline to answer on other ...
The agreement is a major concession from the executive branch after the Trump administration sought to broadly block former and current officials from testifying to Congress, and McGahn's recalcitrance ended up in court as the most potentially consequential case over testimony.
The Mueller investigation relied on McGahn as one of its most significant witnesses against Trump. Mueller wrote in 2019 he was documenting the instances of obstruction so that Congress or future investigations could pick up the ball.
The Justice Department can assert executive privilege or McGahn can decline to answer on other topics , which would essentially block House Democrats from learning details McGahn might know about other major scandals during Trump's presidency.
Former White House counsel Don McGahn endured screaming matches with Donald Trump, badgering phone calls at home on his birthday and the president saying “some crazy shit” in order to advance the project closest to McGahn’s heart: packing the federal judiciary with activist conservative judges. McGahn’s lead role in developing the roster ...
Trump thundered at Sessions. On multiple occasions, Schmidt writes, McGahn prepared his resignation as White House counsel, whose role is to give the president legal advice as it relates to the office of the presidency.
Don McGahn endured screaming matches and badgering calls to advance his pet project: pack courts with conservative judges. The White House counsel, Don McGahn, listens to supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as he testifies before the US Senate judiciary committee on Capitol Hill on 27 September 2018. Photograph: Reuters.
Former President Donald Trump, who wasn't part of the case, hasn't been clued in yet on the deal either, according to the court filing. The Justice Department represents McGahn in the matter. A private lawyer for McGahn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier proceedings in the McGahn case prompted one of the most striking rebukes to the then-President from a federal court, when District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson first ruled that McGahn must testify and the Trump White House couldn't block its former officials from congressional investigations.
Washington (CNN) The House of Representatives and the Biden administration say they have reached an agreement "in principle" on the long-running standoff over a subpoena for former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn to testify about the ex-President's obstructive acts.
Details of the agreement were not immediately made public ly available, and it's merely called an "accommodation" in a court document filed on Tuesday. It's not yet known if McGahn will testify or provide any details to the House Judiciary Committee, as it's sought since the end of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, ...
House and Biden administration reach deal on subpoena for former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn's testimony. Washington (CNN) The House of Representatives and the Biden administration say they have reached an agreement " in principle" on the long-running standoff over a subpoena for former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn ...