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Donald Trump tried to fire special counsel Robert Mueller again in December, the New York Times reports.
Trump’s consideration followed fury over reports that the special counsel issued subpoenas about his business dealings with Deutsche Bank, which the president believed crossed a “read line.”
Trump’s attorneys consulted with Mueller, who reportedly told the president those reports weren’t correct—prompting the president to back down.
The Times report comes after a whirlwind couple of days for the president; on Monday, he fumed over news the FBI raided the office and residence of his personal attorney Michael Cohen in a separate investigation referred by the special counsel.
According to a separate report, Trump also sought to fire Mueller in June of last year.
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Now, A Republic County Sheriff's Office incident report obtained by Raw Story through the Kansas Open Records Act sheds additional light on the situation — one of the latest in a series of thefts from prominent political candidates and political action committees.
The incident report explains how Moran's campaign treasurer, Timothy E. Gottschalk, on Nov. 15 contacted the Republic County Sheriff's Office to report "fraudulent activity" related to the three-term senator's re-election committee.
The sheriff's office sent Deputy Kade Odell to Gottschalk's accounting office in Belleville, Kansas, to meet him.
"Gottschalk stated that they had received emails containing invoices that were found to be fraudulent," Odell wrote in a report. "Before this was discovered, wire transfers were authorized through Astra Bank of Bellevile, Kansas to pay the invoices provided with these fraudulent email."
Odell then sought aid from other agencies.
"I contacted the Kansas Bureau of Investigation requesting assistance on this same date," the deputy wrote. "I was then later advised that it would be referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to be investigated by the Kansas City FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force."
Read the full report here or at this link.
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