White House Counsel Don McGahn has left the building
It’s been coming for awhile now, and it was expected to happen in this timeframe – but it’s not playing out in what you’d call a normal fashion. White House Counsel Don McGahn has officially left the building today, after a strange and controversial tenure. The odd part: he’s bolting before Trump’s replacement White House Counsel is even ready to take over.
Back in mid August, the New York Times reported that Don McGahn had been selling Donald Trump out to Robert Mueller for the previous ten months, providing Mueller with far more evidence and testimony than would have been necessary, as McGahn was trying to keep himself from being scapegoated. This revelation didn’t come as a surprise to anyone who had been reading Palmer Report, as we had been documenting the curious leaks back in December and January which routinely painted McGahn as a hero who was preventing Trump from burning it all down.
Then at the end of August, Donald Trump tweeted that Don McGahn would be resigning once the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process was finished. Various major news outlets reported that McGahn had no idea the tweet was coming. Now that the Kavanaugh debacle is indeed in the rear view, McGahn is no longer on the job, according to numerous news outlets tonight. CNN quotes a source saying that “McGahn was tired of the President and the President was tired of McGahn.”
The kicker is that, for the moment at least, no one appears to be on the job. Donald Trump recently floated Patrick Cipollone as Don McGahn’s successor, but by all accounts, he’s not in position to take the reins yet. That’s pretty much par for the course in Trump’s consistently incompetent White House, and yet here we are. This comes amid reports today that Robert Mueller is just weeks away from making his big move against Trump.
