Don McGhan in the hall of the Trump Tower in New York on January 9, 2017Albin Lohr-Jones/DPA via Press
Donald McGan, just like all White House advisers who served him in front of him, has a wide but one basic charge: to preserve his president, the President of the United States, motivated by problems. Saying that McGahn was not good in this section is low. President Donald Trump and his administration were besieged by a scandal from the start. Lawyers who worked in the previous departments, Democrats and Republicans, asked whether the two mosques had judgment or influence with his client to do this task.
After four months, although the crisis that does not reach its own crisis is not faced, the Trump administration faces an increasing list of differences, legal and others. The FBI is said to be investigating retired Lieutenant Michael Flynn, who has been running for 22 days as a national security adviser, Pressure On behalf of Turkish interests and Talks With the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump took office. there Two congress investigations Examination of the actions of Flynn and Two others Looking at whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign interacted with Vladimir Putin’s system when he was interfering in the 2016 presidential race. And the Ministry of Justice recently hiring A private lawyer to oversee the FBI investigation into the intervention of Moscow and Trump Russia. Jared KushnerTrump’s son -in -law and a close consultant; Former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort; Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael CohenConfronting the FBI or audit in Congress.
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All presidents, Democrats and Republicans, test their share of scandals. But the pace and the size of the differences sweeping the White House Trump at a different and speed level. (I remember that the Saturday night massacre in Richard Nixon – when he is Firing The private public prosecutor who is investigating Watergate-has not even happened for nearly five years in his presidency.
The election lawyer, who served five controversial years at the Federal Electoral Committee, met McGan for the first time Trump in late 2014 and was one of the first stable employees of the Mongols when he launched his presidential presidency. He loved himself to Trump by formulating an attempt to remove Trump from the primary ballot in New Hampshire and coordinate the campaign’s well -being for a list of potential candidates to the Supreme Court, a move that helped attract evangelical voters and the contradictory conservatism.
Shortly after winning the presidency, Trump parked the loyalty Chosen To be the White House lawyer.
About six weeks later, on January 4, According to to New York TimesMcCajan spoke with Michael Flynn, the retired general chosen by Trump as a national security consultant a week before McGan was appointed, about a sensitive issue. In August 2016, Flynn, Flynn Intel, signed a $ 600,000 contract to pressure on behalf of Turkish interests; Flynn’s agent was a Dutch company run by a Turkish businessman, an ally of the President of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. However, at the time, Flynn was not registered under the Law on Registration of Foreign Agents, which requires pressure groups and preachers working in foreign governments to disclose their work.
Now, with Trump’s installation almost two weeks, Flynn was said to have told McGhan that he was undergoing a federal investigation of his failure to detect his pressure on behalf of foreign interests.
What McGAN did with this information is unclear – but nevertheless reveals to former White House lawyers that Flynn continued to have a large position in the White House, it can be said that it is the most sensitive job in the White House. (McCane, through a White House spokesman, refused to comment on this story.) The lawyer’s office in previous white homes said that he cannot be imagined to employ the National Security Adviser who faced legal questions regarding foreign pressure, not to mention the person who was undergoing federal investigation. “At the office of the White House lawyer in which I was working, it was the idea that someone under investigation was a great red flag, and it will be doubtful to advance with this person,” says Bill Marshall, a former White House deputy advisor. “This does not even say it is strong enough.”
Flynn remained in the job, and during the transition, according to what was reported He said Obama’s outgoing administration that it must delay a joint American military strike against ISIS in the Syrian city of Raqqa-a step that corresponds to the desires of the Turkish government.
At a short ceremony at the White House on January 22, Flynn was sworn in as a national security adviser and McGhan in the position of chief adviser. Four days later, Sally Yetz, the United States Public Prosecutor, and a chief official in the National Security Department of the Ministry of Justice, met McGhan at the White House. Yetz McGan told a disturbing development: The United States had reliable information indicating that Flynn did not tell the truth when he denied that he discussed sanctions during the talks with Sergey Kisliac, the Russian ambassador to the United States. Yates added that Flynn was met by the FBI.
Flynn has lied. What’s more, his mention of the penalties was illegal under a mysterious law known as the Logan Law. (Since the establishment of the law in 1799, Not one person Under Logan’s Law, Yates McGan warned that the contradiction between Flynn’s public statements and what he said to the Russian ambassador left him vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians.
“If Sally Yetz comes with this information, I would run the hall like my hair.” Winner added that the Apostle in this case was a comment from the Obama administration, although the White House Trump “may not have a lot of confidence in Yits at that point. Nevertheless, this was supposed to be something that causes warning bells.” Jack Goldsmith, a former chief lawyer for the Ministry of Justice during the George W. Bush administration, repeated Winner’s note. Writing in Lawfare websiteGoldsmith weighs: “Especially against the background of knowledge (and it seems that it does nothing) about Flynn’s failure to report the work of his foreign agent, the information that was transferred must have launched loud alarm bells.”
Flynn, with two federal investigations, remained hanging over his head, working for another 18 days. Join Trump in the Oval Office to make calls with major foreign figures, including Australian and Russia leaders. He was assumed that he sat in daily intelligence and had an unrestricted access to the classified information. It was only yet Washington Post On February 13th I mentioned On Yetz’s warning to Mujtenan about the sensitivity Firing cork.
This question was on the horizon on the entire catastrophe: How did Flynn allow to stay in the job? In a media briefing the day after the dismissal of Flynn, Sean Spicer, the press secretary, addressed the role of a fighter in the controversy of Flynn. Makghan conducted his own review after his meeting with Yates, Spicer Make upAnd “he decided that there is no legal problem, but rather a problem of confidence.”
It was an Arab answer, especially given the facts that later appeared: Flynn was the goal of active investigations. “It is extremely difficult to understand how McChans could have reached these conclusions,” wrote Goldsmith, a former Bush administration lawyer. Goldsmith indicated that Makjan could not know all the details of the investigations targeting Flynn. (In fact, Yetz later witnessed that McGan seemed to have not known that the FBI met his calls with the Russian ambassador.) “The same is of importance, the last word on the legitimacy of the actions of Flynn was not Moujan.” “This call is primarily with the FBI, especially the public prosecutor.”
The continuous flow of the White House detection of Trump and its various legal works has only a harder light on the lawyer and the lawyer office. after mail I mentioned White House officials pressed the Director of National Intelligence and the head of the National Security Agency to reduce the investigation of investigations into Russia at the FBI, Goldsmith Tweet“The question again: Is the lawyer who 1) incompetent or 2) is ineffective because the customer is crazy and lacks access/influence?”
Lawyers who represented Democrats and Republicans agree that Trump is a difficult agent as much as they could imagine. “One feels that Mr. Trump has people talking to him, but he either does not take their advice, asks for their advice, or follow their advice,” says Karen Holt, a Virginia political science professor of technology that studied the White House counselor office. C. He told me earlier this year: “I had no place near the complications that without McGane.” Bob Power, a former White House adviser, Obama, recently interrogation Whether any lawyer can earn Trump: “Does the White House lawyer reach the job of this president? We may discover that no one.” There are some evidence that Trump trusts in McGan. When Trump wanted to launch support data for Vleen and Kushner after naming a special advisor to oversee Trump’s investigation, Russia, it was. According to McGhan He persuaded Trump not to do so.
But part of the job, says former lawyers at the lawyer’s office, the president offers an unwanted president and insists on following the advice. “It is always difficult to say no to the president and do not do what the President of the United States wants,” says Bill Marshall, a former White House lawyer. “But the long -term interests of the President of the United States cannot do anything he might want to do, and if you do so, it can return and strike you from a direction you have never expected.”