Thread by @Monaheart1229

NYT pointing out that Don McGahn was Trump campaign's top lawyer in 2016 & interacted with Manafort
Trump DOJ subpoenaed McGahn's personal info the day AFTER Mueller unsealed new fraud charges against Manafort
Was this about Russia, too?
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nytimes.com/2021/06/13/us/…

2/"One of the roughly concurrent events was that the federal court in the EDVA was the center of one part of the Russia inquiry led by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, that focused on Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign

3/"Because Mr. McGahn had been the top lawyer for the Trump campaign in 2016, it is possible that at some earlier point he had been among those in contact with someone whose account the Mueller team was scrutinizing in early 2018

4/"Notably, Mr. Manafort had been hit with new fraud charges unsealed the day before the subpoena. Subsequent developments revealed that Mr. Mueller’s investigators were closely scrutinizing some of his communications accounts in the days that followed

5/"Another roughly concurrent event was that around that time, Mr. Trump had become angry at Mr. McGahn over a matter a related to the Russia investigation, and that included a leak

6/"In Jan 2018..Trump had ordered Mr. McGahn the previous June to have the Justice Department remove Mr. Mueller, but Mr. McGahn had refused to do so and threatened to resign. .." ~excerpts NYT