Posted on 06/13/2017 7:56:30 AM PDT by Rockitz
Senate Republicans are warning President Donald Trump not to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, despite growing concerns about Mueller’s conflicts of interest and his approach to the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
On Monday, reports emerged that Newsmax Media CEO Chris Ruddy had suggested that the president was thinking of firing Mueller. The president has the constitutional authority to fire a Special Counsel.
However, the suggestion was opposed vehemently by Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Susan Collins (R-ME), according to Politico.
“It would be a disaster,” Graham said. “There’s no reason to fire Mueller. What’s he done to be fired?”
Politico quoted Collins as saying that firing Mueller would “certainly be an extraordinarily unwise move.”
However, there is growing opposition to Mueller’s appointment among conservatives outside the administration.
Mueller is known to be close friends with former FBI director James Comey, whose credibility he would have to weigh against the president’s if Mueller decided to probe whether Trump committed obstruction of justice by expressing the hope that Comey would be lenient with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
In addition, Mueller has added a former Clinton Foundation attorney to his investigative team. The attorney, Jeannie Rhee, defended the Clinton Foundation against Freedom of Information Act requests regarding Hillary Clinton’s illicit private email server
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Absolutely correct. Comey concocted the whole scheme just to appoint this special counsel. Now that his story has unraveled and his admission is made public, this hearing should not even be taking place. I hope Gowdy asks that question, as well as a few others...
You guys need to stop this, you are going to hurt the President far more than Mueller ever could
OK now I am good with it. Fire him!
I like the way you folks think!
POTUS is just giving them ROPE! His enemies will prove that POTUS did nothing WRONG!
No worries for the dems....they’ll just find some liberal judge to strip Trump’s constitutional authority away from him and say he can’t fire Mueller. Problem solved.
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