WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Jan. 26 dismissed as “fake news” a New York Times report that he ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but backed down after White House lawyer Don McGahn threatened to resign.
Associated Press: Trump calls report he ordered Mueller’s firing ‘fake news’
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on Jan. 24, shows US President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, January 5, 2018, and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, special counsel on the Russian investigation, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on June 21, 2017.
