Angus King slams Trump for 'reckless judgment' after reviewing Mueller report

AUGUSTA, Maine — U.S. Sen. Angus King said special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 election revealed “numerous examples of reckless judgment” by President Donald Trump and his advisers.

King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, had the strongest reaction in the Maine delegation to the report, released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday morning. Other members of Maine’s congressional delegation said they hadn’t reviewed it with enough depth to share their assessments of the findings.

Mueller’s two-volume report concluded that Trump and his campaign did not coordinate with Russia during the election and came to no conclusion on whether the president obstructed the investigation. The latter finding was partially because of a government opinion that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted or indicted.

The report also detailed instances in which the Republican president tried to take control of the Mueller probe with subordinates refusing to go along, included a June 2017 directive from Trump to then-White House counsel Don McGahn to tell the acting attorney general that Mueller should be fired. McGahn was prepared to resign over the order and did not carry it out.

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