Pence Rebuts Mueller Claim He Didn’t Meet With Trump as FBI Director Candidate Day Before Appointment

Vice President Mike Pence speaks following his tour of the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort, Miami, Fla., on June 18, 2019. Joe Skipper/Getty Images

Vice President Mike Pence said that he was in the Oval Office when Robert Mueller met with President Donald Trump as a candidate for the position of FBI director.

Mueller claimed during his testimony before Congress on July 24 that he met with Trump but “not as a candidate.”