Steele’s business partner, Chris Burrows, was interviewed as well. Investigators described that interview over 26 pages, but all of those pages are completely redacted. Christopher Steele, author of the infamous Russia dossier on Trump, was interviewed over two days in September 2017 by the FBI.“Comey telephoned McCabe after leaving his dinner with Trump and expressed shock over his experience,” the interview summary said, adding that Comey “described the request for loyalty.” McCabe also discussed former FBI Director James Comey’s infamous 2017 meeting with Trump where he said the president demanded his loyalty.A 16-page summary of the interview with the FBI’s then deputy director, Andrew McCabe, almost entirely redacted for national security and other reasons, discusses whether Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn violated the law against unauthorized negotiations with countries the US is in conflict with.According to an interview with McGahn’s chief of staff, Anniel Donaldson, after the president made those requests, McGahn packed his office and prepared a resignation letter, saying he’d “had it.” Reince Priebus, White House chief of staff, intervened, telling McGahn, “No, you can’t do that.”.McGahn told investigators he “felt stuck and trapped.”

White House counsel Don McGahn said that on Father’s Day weekend 2017, the president repeatedly asked him to tell Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentstein that Mueller had conflicts of interest and couldn’t be special counsel.Manafort believed that the June 9 Trump Tower meeting between senior Trump campaign officials and Russian visitors “may have been a setup” designed to “create questions about whether the Trump Campaign was working with the Russian government.” He claimed the meeting may have been engineered by the Kremlin via Emin and Aras Agaralov, billionaire Russian developers close to Trump.Despite “four or five telephone calls,” he had “no success in talking with Kushner about these issues.” Christie was in charge of the Trump team's transition, but Kushner “engineered the Transition away,” Manafort said. Manafort said that former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who as a prosecutor had once helped send Jared Kushner's father to prison, sought help to “try to repair the relationship” with the president's son-in-law.Kilimnik, Manafort said, sent him documents via his Hushmail account. Manafort also spoke to his partner Rick Gates on that phone. In 2018, Manafort got a burner phone to communicate with Kilimnik.Kilimnik has since been identified as a Russian intelligence officer in a recently released report by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Manafort hired Konstantin Kilimnik, one of his close associates, to “research evidence” about the claims leveled against him in the dossier.“Trump was generally upset that his victory was being undermined.” “Trump told Manafort that the information about Michael Cohen in Prague and Trump in Moscow was similarly not true,” the interview summary said.The information about Manafort was not true, he told the president, “including the payments in the cash ledger,” referring to secret payments made to him from Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort said that after BuzzFeed News published the Steele dossier, he spoke to the president about it.

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