When President Donald Trump learned that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 elections nearly two years ago, he predicted that the probe would end his presidency. “I’m fucked,” he said. This account comes from Mueller’s report, released Thursday, under a section providing evidence for one way Trump may have attempted to obstruct justice: trying to remove the special counsel in order to thwart the investigation. On May 17, 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions personally broke the news to Trump that his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, had appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation into Russia interference in the election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.