{"id":40645,"date":"2018-08-30T11:31:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T11:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=40645"},"modified":"2018-08-30T11:31:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T11:31:52","slug":"white-house-counsel-don-mcgahn-soon-leaving-says-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/white-house-counsel-don-mcgahn-soon-leaving-says-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"White House counsel Don McGahn soon leaving, says Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that White House counsel Don McGahn will soon be leaving his post, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is leading the Russia election interference probe closes in on the US president\u2019s inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite House Counsel Don McGahn will be leaving his position in the fall, shortly after the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court,\u201d Trump announced on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have worked with Don for a long time and truly appreciate his service!\u201d he added, without offering any reason why McGahn was leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, The New York Times reported that McGahn had \u201ccooperated extensively\u201d with Mueller\u2019s team, taking part in at least three interviews with investigators totaling 30 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he had authorised his team to cooperate with investigators, but speculation rose about what McGahn might have specifically said about whether the Republican leader sought to obstruct justice.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that White House counsel Don McGahn will soon be leaving his post, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is leading the Russia election interference probe closes in on the US president\u2019s inner circle. \u201cWhite House Counsel Don McGahn will be leaving his position in the fall, shortly after [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40647,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645\/revisions\/40647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}