纽约客2019年04月29日

Kindle Edition, 2019 © The New Yorker 唯一公众号 悦读汇书苑 其他公众号都是盗我们公众号资源 COMMENT WHAT MUELLER FOUND BY AMY DAVIDSON SORKIN “This is terrible,” President Donald Trump said, at a meeting in the Oval Office on May 17, 2017, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions told him of the appointment of Robert Mueller as a special counsel. Mueller’s mandate was to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, the Trump campaign’s possible coördination with those efforts, and related matters. According to notes taken by Jody Hunt, Sessions’s chief of staff, who was present, Trump said, “This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked.” He then turned his wrath on the Attorney General, who had recused himself from the investigation, even though his job, Trump said angrily, was to protect him: “How could you let this happen, Jeff?” The description of that confrontation, in Mueller’s four-hundred-and-forty- eight-page report, which was released, with redactions, on Thursday, does not include Trump’s pointing to a particular secret or nest of illegality that he feared Mueller would discover. The special counsel, whose team of lawyers and F.......