Back in July, 2017 a few White House sources suggested to a team of Washington Post reporters that there was a fee dispute dating to 2011 when former FBI Director and now Special Prosecuter Robert Mueller left Trump National Washington D.C.
Now in Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman's New York Times story on President Donald Trump's order to fire Mueller last June only to be stopped by White House counsel, the purported fee dispute was among the primary reasons the President cited for firing Mueller.
First, he claimed that a dispute years ago over fees at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., had prompted Mr. Mueller, the F.B.I. director at the time, to resign his membership. The president also said Mr. Mueller could not be impartial because he had most recently worked for the law firm that previously represented the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Finally, the president said, Mr. Mueller had been interviewed to return as the F.B.I. director the day before he was appointed special counsel in May.