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    Does Don McGahn Serve the Presidency or Donald Trump?

    Will Don McGahn, the White House counsel, save Trump from the Russia probe? Or will he be forced to turn on his boss, as John Dean did to Nixon?
    by Emily Cadei Jun 30, 2017 5 minutes
    Don McGahn, then general counsel for the Trump transition team, in the lobby at Manhattan's Trump Tower on November 15, 2016. Now, as White House counsel, McGahn represents the Office of the Presidency, which comprises the chief executive and also the White House staff and the institution as a whole.
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    It’s difficult for any lawyer to represent someone prone to impulsive decisions, self-incriminating statements and potentially corrupt entanglements. But when that someone is the president, your legal advice exponentially takes on more scrutiny and weight.

    Which is why Don McGahn, the White House counsel, has one of the hardest jobs in Washington. An election law expert, McGahn, 48, has faced plenty of heat for his involvement in almost every controversy with the Trump administration. He was the initial interlocutor with acting Attorney General Sally Yates when she reached out to warn about then–National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s potentially compromising conversations with the Russian ambassador. He was the one trying to clean up the mess from President Donald Trump’s first travel ban. And he was part of a small circle of advisers present when Trump decided to fire FBI Director James

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