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L. Coyote

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Fri Jan 26, 2018, 12:39 PM Jan 2018

April Ryan in June: White House "mass hysteria" about Trump firing Mueller.





https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/mass-hysteria-april-ryans-june-2017-claim-white-house-freaked-mueller-firing-corroborates-nyt-bombshell/

hite House correspondent April Ryan told CNN on the night of June 12, 2017 that the White House was in “mass hysteria” with staffers fearing President Donald Trump was about to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.

Thursday night, The New York Times reported senior staffers corroborated that story to Mueller’s team that Trump wanted to fire the special counsel. It was White House counsel Don McGahn who stopped it by saying that if Trump did it he would resign. Trump didn’t fire Mueller after all. Months later, he even denied ever thinking about it.

Here’s what Ryan had to say seven months ago.

“One of my sources reached out to me right before we went on air and they said there’s mass hysteria in the West Wing about this,” Ryan explained “We don’t know if it’s going to happen or if it won’t happen, but what we do know: if indeed the president does fire Mueller, it shows that he’s impeding the process again.”

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April Ryan in June: White House "mass hysteria" about Trump firing Mueller. (Original Post) L. Coyote Jan 2018 OP
Mass hysteria defines this administration (n/t) PJMcK Jan 2018 #1
Bumbling incompetence too. Trump is the Mr. Magoo of American political history. L. Coyote Jan 2018 #2
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