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Trump’s Davos denial only made the Mueller question worse
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 26, Trump called reports that he tried to fire Robert Mueller “fake news,” but he did not give a detailed denial. That matters because the reporting he was swatting away said he backed off only after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign, turning the episode into a fresh obstruction-of-justice flashpoint. The public contradiction also revived questions about Trump’s credibility, since he had previously said he had not given firing Mueller “any thought.”