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New reporting made clear that Trump had privately pushed to remove special counsel Robert Mueller just a month after Mueller’s appointment, raising the stakes of the Russia probe and turning a personnel grievance into a possible obstruction crisis.
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New reporting made clear that Trump had privately pushed to remove special counsel Robert Mueller just a month after Mueller’s appointment, raising the stakes of the Russia probe and turning a personnel grievance into a possible obstruction crisis.
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