Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that White House Counsel Don McGahn’s resignation shows the White House is « in full attack mode on the special counsel. »
« You saw Rudy Giuliani acknowledge just the other day that his whole goal is not to tell the truth, it’s not to be consistent, it’s merely to undermine Bob Mueller, » Schiff said.
Giuliani told The New York Times, « You probably can’t do this without making a mistake or two, » but « Mueller is now slightly more distrusted than trusted, and Trump is a little ahead of the game. »
« So I think we’ve done really well, » Giuliani told the Times, « and my client’s happy. »
« That was not, I think, McGahn’s strategy, » Schiff said on CNN. « The President is clearly worried about what he has said, and he should be worried. »
If Trump worked with McGahn to fashion a pretext for firing then-FBI Director James Comey, Schiff said, McGahn would know whether it was over the Russia probe.
« McGahn would be privy to these conversations, » Schiff said. « He’d be able to say this is exactly why the President wanted to get rid of James Comey — it was all about Russia. »
