President Trump said Friday that the New York Times story saying he wanted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller last year was “fake news.”
“Fake news, folks, fake news,” Trump said in Davos. “Typical New York Times fake stories.”
President Trump says a report that he ordered special counsel Robert Mueller fired in June 2017 is “fake news” https://t.co/gUE8W7lZJl pic.twitter.com/l5wBY4ajiK
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 26, 2018
The Times’ report said Trump ordered Mueller to be fired, and was stopped by White House counsel Don McGahn, who said firing Mueller in the middle of his probe into Russian meddling in the election would be a political disaster for Trump.
McGahn later said the idea of firing Mueller has “never been on the table, never.”
Trump was set to deliver remarks to the World Economic Forum Friday morning at 8 a.m. EST.
