Trump Insists The Constitution's Article II 'Allows Me To Do Whatever I Want'
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President Donald Trump reacts to having the song Happy Birthday sung to him before speaking about expanding healthcare coverage for small businesses in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 14 in Washington, D.C.
President Donald Trump insisted that Article II of the U.S. Constitution "allows" him to do "whatever" he wants, arguing that he never planned to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller but had every legal right to do so.
The president made the remarks during an exclusive interview with ABC News' host George Stephanopoulos, part of which was released last week and another part of which was released ahead of its airing on Sunday.
Stephanopoulos pressed Trump on specific allegations of obstruction of justice, as many legal experts have defined them, laid out in the second portion of Mueller's report. One of the primary examples that critics of the president often... less