As Robert Mueller III probed whether President Donald Trump committed acts of obstruction, one person loomed large in the special counsel’s inquiry: former White House counsel Donald McGahn.

The fraught relationship between the two men appeared to reach a boiling point when the president, suspicious that McGahn was leaking accounts of Trump’s efforts to get the special counsel fired, called the former Jones Day partner “a lying bastard,” according to one account.

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