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A5 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THuRSDAY, ApRIL 18, 2019 Trump tried to seize control of Mueller probe Associated press WASHINGTON — Pub- lic at last, special coun- sel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation today that President Donald Trump tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating poten- tial obstruction of justice by the president. Mueller laid out multi- ple episodes in which Trump directed people around him to try to influence or curtail the Russia investigation after the special counsel’s appointment in May 2017. Those efforts “were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests,” Mueller wrote. After nearly two years, the two-volume, 448-page redacted report made for riv- eting reading. In one particularly dra- matic moment, Mueller reported that Trump was so agitated at the special coun- sel’s appointment on May 17, 2017, that he slumped back in his chair and declared: “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m f---ed.” In June of that year, Muel- ler wrote, Trump directed White House Counsel Don McGahn to call Deputy Attor- ney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversaw the probe, and DOWNLOAD REPORT Read or download the full report: bit.ly/the-mueller-report say that Mueller must be ousted because he had con- flicts of interest. McGahn refused — deciding he would rather resign than trigger a potential crisis akin to the Saturday Night Massacre of Watergate firings fame. Two days later, the presi- dent made another attempt to alter the course of the inves- tigation, meeting with former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and dictating a message for him to relay to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The message: Ses- sions would publicly call the investigation “very unfair” to the president and say that Mueller should limit his probe to “investigating elec- tion meddling for future elec- tions.” Sessions didn’t do so. Flash forward to today, and Trump celebrated the report’s release, telling the audience at an unrelated White House event that he was having “a good day, too. It was called no collusion, no obstruction.” He also renewed his calls for an investigation into the origins of the inquiry, saying, “We do have to get to the bottom of these things, I will say.” The Justice Department AP Photo/Jon Elswick Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, with redactions. posted a redacted version of the report online, 90 min- utes after Attorney Gen- eral William Barr offered his own final assessment of the findings. The release represented a moment of closure nearly two years in the making and at the same time the starting bell for a new round of parti- san warfare. Democrats cried foul as Barr held a press confer- ence just before the release — “spinning the report” in the words of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. They sent up a chorus of calls for Mueller himself to testify before Congress, and Barr said he wouldn’t object. Moments after Barr fin- ished speaking, House Judi- ciary Chairman Nadler sent a letter requesting that Muel- ler himself testify before his panel “no later than May 23.” Mueller evaluated 10 epi- sodes for possible obstruc- tion of justice, and said he could not conclusively deter- mine that Trump had commit- ted criminal obstruction. The episodes included Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, the president’s direc- tive to subordinates to have Mueller fired and efforts to encourage witnesses not to cooperate. The president’s lawyers have said Trump’s conduct fell within his constitutional powers, but Mueller’s team deemed the episodes deserv- ing of criminal scrutiny. As for the question of whether the Trump cam- paign had colluded with Rus- sia during the 2016 presiden- tial campaign, Mueller wrote, “While the investigation iden- tified numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign, the evi- dence was not sufficient to support criminal charges.” Mueller also said there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge any campaign official with working as an unregis- tered foreign agent of Russia. The report included an appendix that contained 12 pages of Trump’s writ- ten responses to the special counsel. They included no questions about obstruction of justice, as was part of an agreement with Trump’s legal team. Trump told Mueller he had “no recollection” of learning in advance about the much-scrutinized Trump Tower meeting between cam- paign officials and a Russian lawyer. He also said he had no recollection of knowledge about emails setting up the meeting that promised dirt on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. He broadly denied know- ing of any foreign govern- ment trying to help his cam- paign, including the Russian government. He said he was aware of some reports that Russian President Vladi- mir Putin had made “com- plimentary statements” about him. Trump said that his com- ment during a 2016 political rally asking Russian hackers to help find emails scrubbed from Clinton’s private server was made “in jest and sar- castically” and that he did not recall being told during the campaign of any Rus- sian effort to infiltrate or hack computer systems. Artist: Mural could be finished in June Name: ‘It’s simple, yet it’s complicated’ Continued from page A1 Continued from page A1 a mural to increase pedes- trian traffic and improve safety in the corridor con- necting Duane and Com- mercial streets. Sterling’s design was chosen from three finalists by a review panel of build- ing owners, a representa- tive from Astoria Visual Arts, a gallery owner and the chairman of the down- town association’s design committee. “We really liked the nar- rative that was involved in her thought process,” Sarah Lu Heath, the exec- utive director of the down- town association, said of Sterling’s design. “One of the goals of the project was bringing people through the alley, and we thought that her ribbons of color were so dynamic, with the focal point of the mountain scape.” For the second phase of the mural, Sterling pro- poses a cobblestone ground cover and colored tile mosaic continuing the lines through the space, encour- aging healthy moss growth for a softer, finished green “At that time we decided to stick with Scandinavian but then we kept hearing more and more input and before we carved any stone or granite we decided we should have another discus- sion about the name,” she said. It was hard for some peo- ple to give up the name — the term is commonly used in Astoria to include all the countries, said Loren Mathews, the president of the heritage association. But the park’s name will be carved into granite at the entrance. “It is just one change on the name,” he said. “We wanted to make sure we were getting it right before we started construction.” “We also don’t want to offend anybody and we want to be inclusive,” Bowler said. Communities in Seattle and Portland have already had similar discussions over the years for local groups and heritage centers, landing on “Nordic” as the preferred term. The Astoria Scandina- vian Heritage Association Astoria Downtown Historic District Association Local artist Andie Sterling’s design for the 13th Street Alley mural includes organic lines leading to the scene of a mountain and farmland valley. space walkway. The design goes before the city’s Historic Land- marks Commission in May. The project also needs a right-of-way variance to paint on the sidewalk. If all goes well, the downtown association anticipates the mural to be finished in June. 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