NEW: Trump raised with acting AG Whitaker the idea of getting the U.S. attorney in New York to "unrecuse" himself from Cohen investigations. https://t.co/UOZJiW2kO8 w/@MarkMazzettiNYT @maggieNYT @npfandos
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) February 19, 2019
Obstruction, again
Insomuch as Trump hires the stupidest people available to ‘carry out his orders in a loyal fashion’ he probably assumed that he could sneak one past Whitaker.
Trump was just acting in a manner that any good crime boss would.