What did Mike Johnson claim about investigations on 24 Jul 2019?
Mike Johnson, U.S. Representative (R-LA) ·
And yet President Trump cooperated fully with the investigation.
The special counsel's report says the President declined to be interviewed after more than a year of requests, refused written answers on obstruction topics, and, once he knew he was under investigation, encouraged witnesses not to cooperate.
The report says: 'We also sought a voluntary interview with the President. After more than a year of discussion, the President declined to be interviewed.' It adds that he 'did not similarly agree to provide written answers to questions on obstruction topics', and that he engaged in 'public attacks on the investigation, non-public efforts to control it, and efforts in both public and private to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation.' (Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, Vol. II, pp. 7 and 13, U.S. Department of Justice, March 2019).
Claim vs. the record · Investigations
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- House Judiciary Committee hearing with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Room 2141, Rayburn House Office Building.
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