Trump disputes report about call with Whitaker over probe into hush money payments
Source: NBC News
Feb. 19, 2019, 3:30 PM EST
By Jane C. Timm
President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied a report that he called Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker and asked him if it would be possible to put an ally in charge of an investigation into alleged hush money payments.
"No, not at all, I don’t know who gave you that," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about the report by The New York Times.
The Times, citing several officials with direct knowledge of the call, reported that Trump asked Whitaker whether the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, described by The Time as an ally of the president, could be put atop the investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan into payments during the 2016 campaign to women who alleged affairs with Trump, which the president has denied.
The Times reported that Whitaker knew he could not put Berman in charge of the probe because he was recused from the investigation.
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