Details: “I spent the last couple of years getting yelled at,” he said, per two sources at the lunch, held in the Capitol’s Strom Thurmond room. “And you may soon read about some of the more spirited debates I had with the president.” McGahn didn’t explicitly mention Mueller’s report, but sources in the room said they understood him to be referring to it when he said this…
McGahn marveled to the group about what Trump can get away with.
He said Trump could do something that’s “180 degrees opposite” of what McGahn advised — but it somehow works. “If it was 179 degrees, it wouldn’t work,” McGahn said, according to the sources.
He said Trump usually takes the conservative side of any given debate — but makes decisions so fast that it was important for McGahn to get to Trump quickly before he announced a decision potentially based on bad information.
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