Posted on 07/20/2017 7:18:26 AM PDT by Strac6
President Trumps frustration with the Russia probe boiled over in a fiery new interview where he set a red line for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, warning against digging into his family finances beyond the Russia scope and suggesting hell soon start talking about the ex-FBI directors conflicts.
The president has regularly complained about the Russia meddling probe, before and after it was placed in the hands of the special counsel. But his comments to The New York Times indicate hes preparing to get even more aggressive in challenging the credibility of the investigation.
Significantly, he said Mueller would cross a red line if he started looking at Trump family finances going beyond any Russia connection.
''I think that's a violation. Look, this is about Russia, Trump said.
The interview leaves unclear under what circumstances, if any, he might order the Justice Department to fire Mueller. But he complained anew that the special counsel was hiring lawyers who donated to his general election rival Hillary Clinton and called him out for having interviewed for the job to replace ex-FBI Director James Comey just before his appointment.
The president said after Mueller was named, he said to himself, 'What the hell is this all about?' Talk about conflicts. But he was interviewing for the job. There were many other conflicts that I haven't said, but I will at some point.''
In the same interview, Trump also issued a remarkable denunciation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, one of his earliest and staunchest supporters, for having recused himself in the Russia case.
"How do you take a job and then recuse yourself?" Trump asked rhetorically. "If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, 'Thanks, Jeff, but Im not going to take you.'"
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Works for me.😇
Trump didn’t hire him.
LOL that’s about right.
Maybe you could explain what that means to Ken Starr.......
You dont understand yet where this is headed. Firing mueller wont stop it.
But you will just have to wait and see how it plays out. You aren’t paying enough attention to who Mueller has hired.
Look up felix sater. Maybe you will start to get the idea
SCORCHED- EARTH
Starr allowed the Clintons to turn his work into a circus. You NEVER let the enemy “shape the battlefield” !
Not at all. I was referring to Starr.
Regarding the president, unfortunately he is making horrible PR mistakes.
We're all so glad you want to fight for conservatism the way you do by helping the President in his fight against the leftist establishment and their attempts to nullify the election.
And for you, because you appear dense enough to need it...../s
A nation cannot survive a “great unwashed” like that. If that is the shape America is in (and it may well be) then neither Trump nor anybody else can ever “make America great again”.
What you fail (or refuse) to understand is that even the best desires fail without good tactics. Right now, WH tactics are atrocious. Right now, DT’s worst enemy is Dr’s ego.
What a dumb thing to say. Can you tell us anything else Captain Obvious?
Du-uh.
What you fail to understand is legion. It's not possible to discuss a thing like tactics in this situation with an arrogant know it all. Who, in spite of what he appears to think about himself, doesn't........
I only repeated what you, in your displays of “intelligence” (?) display you never learned. Don’t worry, next week, we’ll cover long division.
Then you can pretend to teach math...........
Yep! Even that. Look at the long list of Clinton dead.
Rosenstein was nominated by Trump. His predecessor, a Dem holdover, was fired by Trump for refusing to defend the travel ban before the 9th Circuit.
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