"Trump told startled aides that if AG Jeff Sessions would not order the dept to go after #HillaryClinton & James Comey, the former #FBI director, #Trump would prosecute them himself.
...White House counsel, Donald McGahn, sought to stall.
“How about I do this?” McGahn told Trump... “I’m going to write you a memo explaining to you what the #law is and how it works, and I’ll give that memo to you and you can decide what you want to do”"
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