White House counsel to leave in the fall

White House Counsel Don McGahn will be leaving his position in the administration in the fall, President Donald Trump confirmed via Twitter Aug. 29.

The announcement, which was reported by Axios just before the president’s tweet, comes less than two weeks after the New York Times reported that McGahn had been cooperating extensively with the Muller investigation.

McGahn became White House Counsel in January 2017 and, according to the tweet, will depart after the potential confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to become a Supreme Court justice.

The White House counsel serves as a powerful position in the administration, advising the president on everything from legal concerns of policy actions, legal issues related to legislation, the nomination of judges and presidential pardons. The counsel is not, however, the president’s personal attorney.

McGahn threatened to resign in June 2017 after Trump indicated that he was going to fire Robert Muller as special counsel in the Russia investigation, but stayed on after Trump backed down on the decision.

Trump did not announce who McGhan’s successor would be or when, specifically, McGahn would depart the position.

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