Citing Recusal, Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Hired Sessions<br />Asked if Mr. Mueller’s investigation would cross a red line if it expanded to look at his family’s finances beyond<br />any relationship to Russia, Mr. Trump said, “I would say yes.” He would not say what he would do about it.<br />I didn’t do anything wrong.”<br />By PETER BAKER, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMANJULY 19, 2017<br />In edited audio excerpts from an interview with New York Times reporters, President Trump discussed Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump Jr., Robert S. Mueller III<br />and the newly disclosed conversation he had with Vladimir V. Putin.<br />In the interview, Mr. Trump said he believed Mr. Comey told him about the dossier<br />to implicitly make clear he had something to hold over the president.<br />WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Mr.<br />Mr. Comey testified before Congress that he disclosed the details of the dossier to Mr. Trump because he thought<br />that the news media would soon be publishing details from it and that Mr. Trump had a right to know what information was out there about him.<br />Mr. Trump never said he would order the Justice Department to fire Mr. Mueller, nor would he outline circumstances under which he might do so.
