Why would he?
When Dems said they thought Whitaker should recuse himself it sounded like a bad joke. Why would he, as you said.
And can you imagine the megatonnage of the temper blast from Trump if someone told him “Oh, Mr. President, Matt Whitaker just recused himself. Heard it on CNN.”
They would compare it to the first or second Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts. No windows left in White House.
“Why would he?”
I think the next move by the rats is to take this to a court and claim that because the AG recused himself, the new AG should follow the protocol and also recuse himself. I think an appeals court would agree and SCOTUS will overturn it.
Question is, would a court slap an injunction on the new AG from moving forward with getting involved in the probe?
Why would he?