President Trump attacked The New York Times for its report on White House counsel Don McGahn's "extensive" cooperation with the Mueller investigation in a Sunday morning tweet.
"The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel [sic] Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel [sic], he must be a John Dean type “RAT.” But I allowed him and all others to testify - I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide and have demanded transparency so that this Rigged and Disgusting Witch Hunt can come to a close. So many lives have been ruined over nothing - McCarthyism at its WORST! Yet Mueller & his gang of Dems refuse to look at the real crimes on the other side - Media is even worse!"
Between the lines: The Times reports that Trump encouraged McGahn to cooperate fully with the Mueller team, but that McGahn and his legal team feared the president was setting him up to take the fall for any potential obstruction charges.