Top WH lawyer to leave as Russia probe heats up

Donald Trump said that White House counsel Don McGahn would soon be leaving his post, a crucial shift as the probe into Russia’s election interference probe closes in on the US President’s inner circle.

McGahn, who has advised Trump on dealing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, also has been interviewed at length as a cooperating witness by Mueller’s team. He will be leaving his White House post “in the fall,” Trump said via Twitter.

The 50-year-old lawyer is one of the few people left in the White House who had a senior role in Trump’s election campaign, where McGahn was general counsel. Trump maintains team of private lawyers led by former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to deal with his personal legal troubles.