[Golden Eagle]

While I doubt Mueller's ego would ever allow him to recuse himself, this was a very well written piece by Turley on the reasons why he should.

[CMailBag]

IF there is ANY honesty, they both would recuse and shut the damn thing down.

[Enterprise]

Hey hey
Ho ho
Rosey and the Mule
Have got to go

[onona]

I just went on record for recusing myself from this investigation.

Now it's Trump's turn.

[AndyJackson]

The most obvious reason for Rosenstein to recuse himself would be the prospect of his being a potential witness in the obstruction of justice investigation against President Trump. Recently a leak from the special counsel investigation revealed that Trump is now a potential target — a leak clearly calculated to deter Trump from his reported consideration of firing Mueller.

Rosenstein started this and has a duty to supervise it. If he recuses himself, Trump should fire him on the simple grounds that he is incapable of executing his duties as DAG.

[TennTuxedo]

Even if they recuse themselves or if they get fired, there will be someone else to replace them. Trump and his supporters have to be diligent and beat the Swamp critters at their own game.

[Parley Baer]

I say just close the whole damn thing down.

[t4texas]

Wow!
“What a swamp”, said Papa bear.
“And it’s smelly too!”, said Momma bear.
“Very incestuous!”, said Baby bear.
“Let’s drain it!!!”, said they one and all.
Amen

[Diogenesis]

The DEEP STATE, and the Federal Bureau of Mattering
are attempting a coup d'etat using the MSM.

[Homer1]

If Rosenstein refuses, it falls to Rachel Brand...which is good...then she gets to puck Mueller’s successor

[montag813]

Trump should appoint a commission to investigate the criminally incompetent actions of Robert Mueller prior to the Boston Bombing. Americans simply do not understand how easily that could have been prevented, and how Mueller’s insane moves to rid the FBI of “Muslim profiling” and engage in “outreach” to radical mosques, like the Tsarnaev’s, made that attack inevitable, capped off by how the FBI completely ignored Russia and Israel’s warnings about Tsarnaev.

[onyx]

Had Comey come out on January 21, 2017 (or any early date) to announce that newly inaugurated President Trump was NOT a target of ANY investigation, this entire damn “Russian collusion” investigation would have NEVER grown legs.

Comey deserved to be fired on that count alone.

ALL these investigations need to be stopped immediately!

They are OUT OF CONTROL WITCH HUNTS!

[drypowder]

My take: The dems were crying their eyes out shaming Sessions to agree to recuse himself on this investigation, they succeeded. Their plan was along to remove Sessions from the equations and have Rosenstein hire an independent counsel, the one the establishment wants him to hire, Robert Mueller. The plan was/is for Rosenstein to recuse himself from the investigation once Mueller has his pieces in place so then the only one left who can fire the independent counsel, is Trump. Even though Trump has said he won't fire Mueller, the establishment had to have a plan in place to ensure their desired outcome. As much as I'd like to see Rosenstein get his, if he recuses himself, which I believe he will, I surmise that Trump's stay in the WH will shortly be toast. It's unlikely that Session will ever unrecuse himself.

[Cementjungle]

Well, the whole bunch are all owned by the Russians. We have to bring in someone really fair and independent.. perhaps Eric Holder.

[Ann Archy]

Rosenstein needs to be FIRED and so does Mueller!! CORRUPT to the CORE!!

[Cboldt]

The assumption that underlies this entire article by Turley (and a similar one by Gregg Jarrett) is that Mueller on his own, or Mueller through or with Rosenstein, picked up investigation of a claim that Trump obstructed justice.

That assumption is nonsense, for many reasons.

If Mueller's investigation into Trump campaign connections into Russia, which is what his authorization loetter has him looking into, why on the world would he add another investigation so as to disqualify himself from the whole thing? Why would Rosenstein do that?

The Trump obstruction claim can stand separate - it is a view into Trump's conduct - from the Trump campaign collusion claim. Mueller is tasked with looking into the collusion claim(s).

[Boomer]

I confess to not hearing about Robert Mueller before he was appointed as special counsel but what I don’t understand is him supposedly having a sterling reputation. How can such a far left tool have a good reputation unless his reputation is to do exactly what his establishment masters tell him what to do?