Trump tried to remove special counsel Mueller from investigating his ties to Russia

US President Donald Trump tried to remove Special Counsel Robert Mueller from investigating his ties to Russia. This is stated in the Mueller report on the results of the investigation of Russian interference in the American elections, writes "BBC".

The report notes that in June 2017, Trump called White House General Counsel Don McGahn_,_ to try to remove Mueller from the investigation due to a "conflict of interest."

McGahn said he resigned after that conversation, feeling "trapped" because he didn't want to follow Trump's lead. In addition, as noted in the report, Trump considered the appointment of Mueller as special counsel "the end of his presidency."

The final chapter of the report states that Muller's verdict is not acquittal. “If we had confidence <...> that the president did not clearly interfere with the investigation, we would have stated this,” the report says.

Earlier, the US Department of Justice published a 448-page report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in an edited version: classified information and the testimony of some witnesses were excluded from it.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said there were ten episodes in the Mueller report that could be interpreted as Trump's attempts to obstruct justice. However, Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, said they disagreed, stressing that there was not enough evidence to press charges against Trump.

Immediately after the event ended, Trump tweeted a post calling the publication of the Mueller report a game over for his opponents: “No collusion. No interference with the investigation. For my haters and for the Democratic radical left, it's game over."

Recall that Special Counsel Robert Mueller launched an investigation into alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election in May 2017, and notified the Attorney General of the completion on March 22. The Special Counsel's team has been investigating links between individuals from the Trump campaign or those close to the Kremlin. In the end, the Mueller team found no collusion between Trump and the Russian authorities.

Throughout the investigation, Mueller's team filed charges against a total of 34 people, including six from Trump's circle. None of them were accused of colluding with Russia. In connection with the investigation, charges were brought against several Russians who are associated with the so-called. a "troll factory" that stirs up controversy in social networks; and hackers who hacked into the servers of the Democratic Party.