I don’t know, Trump (actually Sessions) fired a whole lotta other peeps.
Refresh your memory of the “conditions on the ground” with *all* things related to the “Mueller Investigation” *during* the “Mueller Investigation”.
Minor players and those “off ball” (not part of, with oversight of or related to the “Mueller Investigation” could be gotten rid of without creating a killer storm. Still created storms, but not like what would have happened *if* there had been *anything* that could be twisted into “obstruction of justice”).
This was a major topic of discussion at the time among us Qberts.