WASHINGTON — After stalling for two years, Donald Trump’s former White House lawyer has agreed to testify on allegations the ex-president illegally obstructed the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, a court filing said Wednesday.
Don McGahn, who was White House counsel in 2017 and 2018 when Trump was investigated by independent prosecutor Robert Mueller, had fought a subpoena by the House Judiciary Committee to testify in its examination of Mueller’s findings.
The Mueller report said that Trump had ordered McGahn to have Mueller removed as the Justice Department special counsel in 2017, an order that McGahn refused.
When media heard of that, Trump also al…
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