Posted on 04/10/2018 4:38:16 PM PDT by EdnaMode
In early December, President Trump, furious over news reports about a new round of subpoenas from the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, told advisers in no uncertain terms that Mr. Mueller’s investigation had to be shut down.
The president’s anger was fueled by reports that the subpoenas were for obtaining information about his business dealings with Deutsche Bank, according to interviews with eight White House officials, people close to the president and others familiar with the episode. To Mr. Trump, the subpoenas suggested that Mr. Mueller had expanded the investigation in a way that crossed the “red line” he had set last year in an interview with The New York Times.
In the hours that followed Mr. Trump’s initial anger over the Deutsche Bank reports, his lawyers and advisers worked quickly to learn about the subpoenas, and ultimately were told by Mr. Mueller’s office that the reports were not accurate, leading the president to back down.
Mr. Trump’s quick conclusion that the erroneous news reports warranted firing Mr. Mueller is also an insight into Mr. Trump’s state of mind about the special counsel. Despite assurances from leading Republicans like Speaker Paul D. Ryan that the president has not thought about firing Mr. Mueller, the December episode was the second time Mr. Trump is now known to have considered taking that step. The other instance was in June, when the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, threatened to quit unless Mr. Trump stopped trying to get him to fire Mr. Mueller.
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Yes he should have and I bet has given an ass kicking to who ever talked him out of it.
No named sources
Geez! Look who wrote it and where it is from.
Total BULLSHITE!
This is merely to provoke Muellhead. Otherwise BS.
So, every six months they drag this out, dust it off, and run it again.
BORING
“No named sources”
Consider these “sources,” MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Two crap weasels feeding at the NY Slimes trough!
When Democrats aren’t thinking about Stormy Daniels, they’re fantisizing about President Trump firing SC Mueller. Real porn and political porn. Neither is real life.
These days you can’t take ANY news story at face-value. Those days are long gone; especially coming from left-leaning sources. So much agitprop these days.
Every six months? You need to pay closer attention!
Fake News
Bovine Feces.
All the fake news that’s got to print.
That's why we're lucky to have people like Mark Zuckerberg. He knows what's true news and what's fake news, and he's not afraid to censor! /sarc
well, djt decided to keep Mueller and Company on our payroll
and I predict Mueller will concoct just enough of a fake story for the DNC-RINO coalition in Congress to impeach and remove DJT from office
not terminating this investigation farce.. will prove to have been DJT’s biggest mistrake
I’ve never been tempted to have a Facebook account. The last thing I ever want to see is former high school “friends” finding me.
The byline tells you not to read any further.
Yep. No names then shouldn’t be believed. They’ve been proven wrong more than not.
Its time the WH staff play hard ball and not let the enemy in the door.
It energizes the #neverTrump leftist FReaks here.
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