Trump Considering Firing Special Counsel Mueller
PBS Newshour anchor Judy Woodruff posted to Twitter Monday evening that Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax, told her that President Donald Trump is “”considering perhaps terminating” Robert Mueller as special counsel”.
.@ChrisRuddyNMX tells me Pres Trump is "considering perhaps terminating" Robert Mueller as special counsel @NewsHour
— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) June 12, 2017
Video with Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy was later released:
Newsmax's Chris Ruddy: @POTUS is considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller. pic.twitter.com/SQsbAForqb
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) June 12, 2017
Former FBI Director Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last month to investigate alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Recent reports indicate that Mueller is looking to expand his investigation to include the decision to fire his successor as FBI director, James Comey.
GQ described Mueller’s hiring for the investigation as a “Murderer’s Row of Prosecutors” and “men and women responsible for bringing down Nixon, Enron, and the mafia.”
No crimes have been alleged to have been committed, nor has President Trump been accused of any crimes. Comey testified last week that he had told Trump several times before he was fired that Trump was not under investigation.
Ruddy’s comment came the day after one of Trump’s personal attorneys, Jay Sekulow, declined to rule out the possibility that Trump might fire Mueller. Sekulow was being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ This Week.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And finally, will the president promise not to interfere, not attempt at any time to order the deputy attorney general to fire Robert Mueller?
SEKULOW: Look, the president of the United States, as we all know, is a unitary executive. But the president is going to seek the advice of his counsel and inside the government as well as outside. And I’m not going to speculate on what he will or will not do.
But right now the role of the president is to govern the United States of America. He’s going to do that. He’s going to leave anything else to the lawyers. But I can’t imagine that that issue is going to arise. But that again is an issue that the president with his advisers would discuss if there was a basis.
I mean, George, if there was a basis upon which there was a question raised that raised the kind of issues that are serious, as in the situation with James Comey, the president has authority to take action. Whether he would do it is ultimately a decision the president makes.
I think that’s complete conjecture and speculation. The Constitution, it’s a unitary executive. You know that, you worked for a president.”
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York published a report late Sunday night in which D.C. lawyers, including some who worked at the Department of Justice, questioned whether Mueller should resign due to his close friendship and professional history with Comey.
One comment from a “(Capitol) Hill lawyer”:
Ann Coulter posted on Twitter Mond
Pres.Trump needs to fire Mueller this guy is his worst enemy. Get rid of him he’s bad news, I am also tired of my tax dollars being wasted on stupid investigations like this how about starting a investigation into all of the law breaking Hillary was doing at least she is guilty of numerous infractions the woman needs to looking out of a jail cell.
Good!!! Let Muller and his ‘cronies’ keep ‘leaking’ and that would be the “perfect” excuse to fire him and the entire Obama/Clinton swamp creatures that are ’employed’ (i.e. on the government tit) in this open ended limitless $$$ witch hunt.
Get rid of that liberal left wing Clinton loving jerk!!!!