President Trump is calling a report that he was talked out of firing special counsel Robert Mueller in June, "Fake News." A White House source tells Fox News that then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon believed last summer that the president would fire Mueller and they were worried about the potential political fallout.
The White House was rocked overnight by an explosive report that President Trump ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller last June and only backed down after the top White House lawyer threatened to quit.
Trump, in Davos for the World Economic Forum, denied The New York Times story early Friday, calling it “fake news, folks.”
Fox News is told, however, that Trump did have conversations about firing Mueller – but it might not have amounted to an outright directive.