On Saturday, the New York Times made an explosive claim that White House counsel Don McGahn had been cooperating “extensively” with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

That article, which also claimed that McGahn was concerned Trump may use him as a scapegoat, prompted a reaction from both President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Yet on Sunday, Times’ writers Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt dropped a new bombshell, reporting that “President Trump’s lawyers do not know just how much the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, told the special counsel’s investigators during months of interviews.”

According to the NYT:

President Trump’s lawyers do not know just how much the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, told the special counsel’s investigators during months of interviews, a lapse that has contributed to a growing recognition that an early strategy of full cooperation with the inquiry was a potentially damaging mistake.

The president’s lawyers said on Sunday that they were confident that Mr. McGahn had said nothing injurious to the president during the 30 hours of interviews. But Mr. McGahn’s lawyer has offered only a limited accounting of what Mr. McGahn told the investigators, according to two people close to the president.

That has prompted concern among Mr. Trump’s advisers that Mr. McGahn’s statements could help serve as a key component for a damning report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, which the Justice Department could send to Congress, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

Haberman also tweeted out this tidbit along with the article:

Trump, who has long been obsessed with John Dean’s role with Nixon, was enraged by the idea that he wasn’t fully aware of what McGahn did in special counsel interviews https://t.co/yvbR3exgNA

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 19, 2018

The Times article calls Trump’s lawyers’ failure to ask McGahn what he planned to say to the Mueller team “careless.”

Read the full article here.

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