President Trump’s lawyers are actively building a case against what they believe to be special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s conflicts of interest. Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one person. A second person said Trump’s lawyers have discussed pardoning powers among themselves.
Since Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, the attorney general has rapidly lost his standing as one of Trump’s most trusted advisers, according to two White House officials.
The Debrief
The attorney general, who was one of Trump’s most important early supporters, became the latest ally to suddenly fall out of the president’s good graces.
The pool at Gibson Park in Overtown where Alton Banks swam the day he died. (Scott McIntyre for The Post)
Jessie Davis, a neighbor of Alton Banks’s family, outside her home. (Scott McIntyre for The Post)
A makeshift memorial where Kyle Dodds, 24, overdosed in 2016. (Scott McIntyre for The Post)
The Overtown neighborhood is the epicenter of Miami’s opioid and fentanyl problems. (Scott McIntyre for The Post)
No one knows how the crisis that has ravaged the nation wound up taking Alton Banks, a happy, skinny little boy. But it’s possible he came into contact with the drugs at the pool or on his walk home in Overtown, a neighborhood notorious for being Miami’s busiest opioid marketplace.
The Treasury has fined ExxonMobil $2 million for agreements signed with a Russian businessman when Rex Tillerson was the company’s CEO. ExxonMobil responded with a legal complaint naming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as lead defendant.
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The Trump administration’s decision to remove the experts from the Facebook CEO’s trip was highly unusual and capped off days of internal discussions about how to treat Zuckerberg, who has become a vocal critic of the president.
The legislation would grant permanent legal status to more than 1 million young people who arrived in the United States before they turned 18, passed security checks and met other criteria, including enrolling in college, joining the military or finding jobs.
The New York financier is a frequent defender of the president on television and was a fixture at Trump Tower during Trump’s transition.
The for-profit club, where President Trump spent numerous weekends this spring, asked permission to hire 15 housekeepers, 20 cooks and 35 waiters because it says it cannot find qualified Americans for those jobs.
Hugh Freeze quit following reports that he used his school-issued phone to call an escort service. The call was brought to the attention of university officials by an attorney for former coach Houston Nutt, who is suing the school.
‘Unacceptable’: Fatal shooting of woman by Minneapolis officer should have been recorded, mayor says
Police body cameras failed “when we needed them most,” Mayor Betsy Hodges said. The cameras were turned off when an officer shot Justine Damond, who had called 911 to report a possible rape.
The country's leaders felt pressure to prosecute the prince, Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Musaed bin Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, because King Salman has said citizens’ rights generally are more important than royals' privileges.
