McGahn, Soldier for Trump and Witness Against Him, Leaves White House

Goodbye, until next time. No doubt McGahn will next pop up in an outlet where he can continue carrying out his beloved tenets of toxic conservatism.

Good Riddance!! I only wish he would take his friend Kavenaugh with him. What a blot he has inflicted on his record and the nation as a result.

Trump is a useful idiot for people like McGahn. That's two Republican presidents in a row who are essentially stooges for the aristocrats dismantling our democracy. Telling that you have to go back over 25 years to find a Republican president who had any sort of respect from their underlings; Reagan was even debatable in this regard. If you discount the blip of Bush Sr, we're talking forty plus years of puppeteering, once it became clear that Nixon couldn't blatantly break the law.

Hmmm. A proud son of the fightin' Irish? Fr. Hesburgh is spinning in his grave.

McGahn has had no problem working for self-described sexual predator Donald Trump, and he was big supporter of wife-beater Rob Porter before he ushered Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court. This guy is as slimy as they come. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

It's erroneous to suggest that McGahn was a "soldier for Trump". Trump was a tool for him. In conjunction with the Federalist Society and their list of judicial candidates, McGahn worked with Mitch McConnell to rush through a bevy of lower court nominees. They rushed this deliberately, before the ABA could assess the fitness of these nominees; thus far, the ABA has determined that at minimum 41% of those already confirmed are unfit. These nominees are uniformly straight, Christian, overwhelmingly male and all are YOUNG - they will be shaping our judiciary for decades. The senate had agreed to suspend any further confirmations but reneged today. These judgeships were kept vacant by McConnell for this moment. Saying that McGahn is leaving for any other reason is like saying that Face Huggers in "Alien" could die (after they'd served their sole purpose).

Pat Cipollone, "very fine man, respected by everyone." Enjoy that distinction while you can, Sir. You are about to receive Trump taint. None emerge better than when they arrive.

Rats and sinking ships, etc., etc.

It seems possible that his departure is because he has insider knowledge that the Special Counsel investigation is reaching a major turning point: either about to issue its report, or about to follow threads directly into a new arena (guess #1: Trump's financial ties with Russian money launderers). But it's all an open question. Certainly, history has proven that many people can't ride the Trump train for long

Soldier for Trump? Superficially. More like soldier for the Republican junta that has usurped control of our government. He appears to be much more disciplined, dispassionate, and strategic than the clown car that road into Washington 2 years ago. The degree to which he is a witness against Trump will be proportional to the degree it benefits him and his fellow Republicans, and no more than that. He is playing the long game. Expect to see more of him in the future.

Historically, the Trump Era will be looked at as the beginning of the decline of the United States as the sole leader of the free world. It was inevitable, but it should not have happened in this manner. Prior to Trump, the world was gaining on us simply from rebuilding after World War II. Today country's have come to understand we are vulnerable and each nation needs to build alliances that extend beyond us.

Run, Donny, run. You did your job. "A longtime fixture in Republican legal circles, Mr. McGahn led White House efforts to slash government regulations and stack the federal courts with conservative judges. He shepherded the nominations of both of Mr. Trump’s Supreme Court choices, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh." Thanks a million. You might have gone down in HIStory as a true democracy-destroyer and for setting the stage for the International Mafia Robber Baron's attempted WW3. But you won't. WE THE PEOPLE finally understand the critical condition you and your brethren have ushered in for democracy in OUR United States of America and WE will stop you all. Enjoy your Koch brothers money. Until we tax it back and throw you in jail for treason against democratic governance in OUR America. This will not stand. Not now. Not ever.

McGahn was a strong Trump supporter. Even though he did not serve as the President's personal attorney, he certainly appeared to direct Trump personally in many ways. He brought many attorneys to the WH that had worked for Russian oligarchs. In 2014 McGahn moved to the law firm of Jones Day in Washington, D.C. He also worked for the Koch affiliated Freedom Partners. McGahn brought five Jones Day lawyers with him to the White House, and six more were appointed to senior posts in the Trump Administration. Jones Day has represented Alfa-Bank and done work for businesses belonging to a long list of Russian oligarchs, including Oleg Deripaska, Viktor Vekselberg, and Alexander Mashkevich. McGahn served as Donald Trump's campaign counsel during his 2016 campaign for president and managed all litigation involving Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.

It’s a misnomer to say McGahn “served” on the FEC. It’s more accurate to say he systematically destroyed campaign finance oversight by paralyzing the FEC. His tightly-controlled voting bloc would not even agree to investigate illegal foreign contributions.

Don't expect any sudden conversion to pro-America patriotism from McGahn now that he is out of the White House. As just another Republican Party-uber-alles apparatchik he will lie, under oath if necessary, to protect the party's front man Trump. There will be no legal ramifications for him or anyone else in the fundamentally immoral Republican camp.

The banality of evil.

Federal Election Commission! The fox guarding the chicken coop?

For the most part McGahn leaves Trumpland with his reputation intact. He deserves credit for surviving the toxic environment fomented by Trump without the loss of his basic values and sense of honor. He is ready for a better life.

He has done what he set out to do: SCOTUS is packed with Federalist Society selected Conservatives. No matter what happens or doesn’t happen to Trump re the Mueller investigation, this damage is permanent. How many other top Trump appointments have succeeded with the apparent strategy: Trump is a mess, get in there, work around the mess, get your fix in, let Trump take credit, then leave. Bannon tried it, (and was successful in getting the ignoramous elected, but not so much as an inside man), but Stephen Miller continues to work it, as Treasury Secretary Mnuchin does, just to mention a few. These people have no loyalty to Trump, but are glad to act as if in order to fill the vacuum his bloated ego creates with their very personal and ideological agendas. Inside and out of the Oval Office, Trump remains the Manchurian puppet for the likes of a homicidal Saudi Prince or the tyrannical oligarch Putin, even Kim. All the bad guys know how to play him. Every last one of them.

Donald McGahn is not an innocent bystander, as he stood by our atrocious president more than necessary as the lawyer for the presidency; he certainly was instrumental in the F.B.I. fiasco to thoroughly investigate Kavanaugh's pecadilloes...and responsible to avoid his 'packing' for a prolonged vacation off the Courts, and a tribute to the veracity and respect of an aggrieved woman that had nothing to gain but alert us to the dubious moral credentials of a candidate. Good riddance.

So after the Times derides Andrew Gillum, Elizabeth Warren and misrepresents how things went down in the "Senate Truce Collapses" article it goes completely neutral on McGahn.

For many of us out here Don McGahn will be remembered for advising Brett Kavanaugh to blubber like a baby, yell and scream and pout about how terrible he was being treated, take issue with questioning Senators, Democrats on the committee, on September 27th, to try desperately to become a Supreme Court Justice. Brett grabbed the opportunity, put on his show, and it worked. That is how Don McGahn will go down in my history book. Nothing more. Glad to see him go, but we all know his replacement will be nothing to be proud of either.

Another foot soldier is discarded from the rotting pile into what will probably be a cushy job with far fewer headaches.

wow! sound the alarms to all the patriotic fascists. the photo shows him w/o his government issued lapel pin flag! such a traitor. horrors! maybe he was ostracized and why he chose to leave.

This episode in the Trump legal saga is much like all the others. A person is hired and touted as "the best" by Trump. the person has a conflict with Trump or finds the working conditions impossible. Trump then trashes the person in the usual dispicably juvenile, bulling Trump method. The person leaves or is fired. It is a canard that these people started because they want to serve for the good of the country despite their conflicts with Trump's malignant history, both personally and politically. Every one of these people join up thnking they can control the reptile. They cannot. They are either eaten by this reptile or barely escape with their lives. No one escapes with their reputation untarnished. The solution to Trump is to obstruct, impede, and ignore anything he does until he is out. Please hurry Mr. Mueller.

For a brief second I thought Mr. McGahn had a moral compass,then he shepherded Kavanaugh nomination through the Senate.

There's not a hint in this article of McGahn's connection with the Koch brothers, his loosening of campaign regulations as chair of the FEC, or his work for the businesses of "a long list of Russian oligarchs . . ." (Wikipedia). I recommend a viewing of the documentary, "Dark Money".

Good little soldier Don McGahn on behalf of Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. Succeeded in packing the federal courts with right wing lifetime judges who will methodically suppress and eliminate the rights of everyone but the 1%. Good riddance to him. I’m sure he’ll be paid handsomely for his efforts. I sincerely hope he gets caught up in the Mueller probe.