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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 12:19 AM Jun 2017

Trump Pondered Firing Mueller; His Aides Pushed Back

Source: MSN/NY Times

WASHINGTON — Last month’s appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as a special counsel to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia enraged President Trump. Yet, at least initially, he holstered his Twitter finger and publicly said nothing.

But behind the scenes, the president soon began entertaining the idea of firing Mr. Mueller even as his staff tried to discourage him from something they believed would turn a bad situation into a catastrophe, according to several people with direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s interactions.

For now, the staff has prevailed. “While the president has every right to” fire Mr. Mueller, “he has no intention to do so,” the White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters late Tuesday after a day of speculation over Mr. Mueller’s fate.

Mr. Trump, angered by reports in Breitbart News and other conservative news media that Mr. Mueller was close to James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he had fired, repeatedly brought up the political and legal implications of firing someone he viewed as incapable of an impartial investigation.


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Great. The President believes his own BS talking points that are spread through Breitbart and Fox and Friends.
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Trump Pondered Firing Mueller; His Aides Pushed Back (Original Post) TomCADem Jun 2017 OP
They won't be able to restrain that rabid dog of a president for long. sandensea Jun 2017 #1
SCROTUS is losing it. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2017 #2
Ya forgot his ketchup. sprinkleeninow Jun 2017 #4
That alone should be grounds for impeachment FrodosNewPet Jun 2017 #5
He's a class act, doncha know! sprinkleeninow Jun 2017 #6
So he fires Mueller and Ryan tells us how Trump is new and ignorant of the Solly Mack Jun 2017 #3
Republican Pres Trump does NOT have EVERY right to fire Mueller. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #7

sandensea

(21,674 posts)
1. They won't be able to restrain that rabid dog of a president for long.
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 12:30 AM
Jun 2017

And when he fires Mueller, THEN the real fun will begin for him.

Don't drop the soap Comrade Don.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,869 posts)
2. SCROTUS is losing it.
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 12:43 AM
Jun 2017

The White House sounds like a lunatic asylum, and the primary inmate is running it. But being perpetually enraged is bad for a person's health. He really should chill a bit, have a nice overdone steak with a side of KFC and mashed potatoes, followed up with a beautiful piece of chocolate cake with two scoops of ice cream.

If he thinks he's in the middle of a shitstorm now, just wait for what happens if he fires Mueller.


sprinkleeninow

(20,267 posts)
4. Ya forgot his ketchup.
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 01:02 AM
Jun 2017

Naw, being enraged daily is good for the blood to keep moving at a beneficial rate. 😝

Solly Mack

(90,787 posts)
3. So he fires Mueller and Ryan tells us how Trump is new and ignorant of the
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 12:57 AM
Jun 2017

rules and laws of government to have any criminal motives.

Other republicans will tell us how firing Mueller doesn't mean Trump is guilty of obstructing justice. That he is merely thinking like the CEO he is and that he doesn't understand the optics of political conflicts.

And then.....what?

Congressional republicans don't care.

They, like Trump, are giving Americans the finger as it is already.

The system, currently controlled by republicans, isn't going to stop Trump. We can't count on any safeguards because republicans want to turn the system on its head and force their cultural and economic views down our throats - and Trump allows them the best chance they have ever had.

They don't care - it bears repeating. Appeals to common decency won't work on them. They don't give a fuck about our democracy or rules and laws. They see all of that as an impediment to their goals.

Republicans ceased being Americans a long time ago. At least Americans as we define Americans and America. They're not looking to preserve - they are looking to force the rest of us to yield to them.





Bernardo de La Paz

(49,045 posts)
7. Republican Pres Trump does NOT have EVERY right to fire Mueller.
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 05:55 AM
Jun 2017

The law says he can only be fired for "good cause", if I understand reports.

Unhappiness, or fear, is not good cause. If he were fired not for good cause, that would be yet more grounds for impeachment (again, obstruction of justice).

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