Trump picks up on former White House lawyer Don McGahn

President Donald Trump criticized Don McGahn on Saturday, saying that he was "never a big fan" of the former White House lawyer, amidst a permanent battle between the House Democrat and the administration on documents and testimonials regarding the investigation of the special advocate Robert Mueller.

"I was not going to fire Bob Mueller, and I did not fire Bob Mueller. In fact, he was allowed to finish his relationship with unprecedented help from the Trump administration, "said the president. write online. "In fact, the lawyer Don McGahn was much more likely to be fired than Mueller. Never a big fan! "

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The band follows a Friday report According to the Wall Street Journal, McGahn rejected White House's request last month to publicly declare that he did not believe the president was obstructing justice when Trump had ordered McGahn to request the return of Mueller. in June 2017.

According to the redacted version of the special council report released by the Justice Department in April, Trump asked McGahn to inform Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that Mueller should be removed from office. McGahn refused Trump's subsequent request to refute press information regarding the president's directive, according to Mueller's report.

McGahn, who stepped down as the White House's top lawyer in October, was one of Mueller's most prolific witnesses in the upper echelons of the Trump administration. But on Tuesday, he refused to comply with a Congressional summons of the House Judiciary Committee to produce documents related to Mueller's investigation before handing them over to the White House.

The committee's subpoena also required McGahn to testify publicly on May 21, although it is not known whether he will appear before the committee.

Trump told Fox News last week that McGahn was not expected to testify before Congress and had previously denied in a tweet last month that he accused McGahn of dismissing Mueller.

"As wrongly reported the Fake News Media, I've never told White House lawyer Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller, while I'm in trouble." had the legal right, "said the president. write online. "If I wanted to fire Mueller, I would not need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself."