The amnesia came in different flavors. “Do not recall” — 14 times. “No recollection” — 9. “Do not remember” — 6. “No independent recollection” — 2. “Nor do I recall” — 2. “Nor do I remember” — 1.
President Trump has repeatedly crowed that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report is a “total exoneration.” After its release Thursday morning, he tweeted: “No collusion. No obstruction. For the haters and the radical left Democrats — Game Over.”
“This was one of many busy months during a fast-paced campaign, as the primary season was ending and we were preparing for the general election campaign,” Trump wrote.In his written responses to questions from Mueller's team, President Trump denied that he was being serious when, in a July 2016 press conference, he seemed to invite or welcome Russia hacking into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
That meeting was preceded by an offer of information about Hillary Clinton passed along from Russians, which arguably violated laws against accepting anything of value from foreign sources, the report said. Rob Goldstone, a friend of Donald Trump Jr.'s who had made the original contact, had promised that the Russian was bringing incriminating information about Clinton. Instead, she spent much of the meeting lobbying the Trump campaign officials to lift the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 U.S. law bitterly criticized by the Kremlin that freezes assets of Russian officials responsible for human rights abuses, the report says.
“We concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice,” Mueller wrote in a legal analysis of whether Congress can pursue an investigation into the president. “President Obama’s comment sat with President-Elect Trump more than [Hope] Hicks expected,” the special counsel wrote, referring to one of Trump’s closest aides. Hicks told the special counsel that Trump felt that Flynn had “bad judgment” and was angered by inflammatory tweets that Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr., had sent.
“The statement dictated by the President did not mention the offer of derogatory information about Clinton," the report says.There was an extended back and forth between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks over Twitter direct messages, according to the report. More than one-third of the report’s pages contain at least one blacked-out word. Most of the pages have no redactions. Some are almost entirely blacked out.The report describes President Trump's initial reaction to learning Robert S. Mueller III had been appointed on May 17, 2017, to investigate the potential links between his campaign and the Russians.
The president became irate and berated Sessions for recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation.He told Sessions he had let Trump down and that he was supposed to have protected Trump. “Everyone tells me if you get one of these independent counsels it ruins your presidency,” Trump continued.
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