‘ARTICLE II!’ (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Look, Article II [of the Constitution], I would be allowed to fire Robert Mueller. Assuming I did all the things, said I want to fire him. Number one, I didn’t. He wasn’t fired … But more importantly, Article II allows me to do whatever I want. Article II would have allowed me to fire him.
— President Donald Trump, during an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, denying that he ever told former White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire former special counsel Robert Mueller, and insisting that Article II of the Constitution, which outlines the powers he’s given as president, would have entitled him to do so.
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EXCLUSIVE: President Trump tells @GStephanopoulos that he "wasn't gonna fire" special counsel Robert Mueller because "I watched Richard Nixon go around firing everybody, and that didn't work out too well." https://t.co/XGywDOjKYw pic.twitter.com/qriHdg6TWR
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 16, 2019
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