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To: Sidebar Moderator
Tomorrow, you’ll see all of the morning shows leading with this story.

Absolutely. The Clinton News Network (CNN) and MSDNC are already on overdrive. But logically, the claim falls apart. The headline screams "Trump ordered Mueller fired!!!" Yet, if Trump had actually ordered Mueller fired, then someone would have been fired. If not Mueller, then Rosenstein, or Sessions, who Mueller actually reports to, and would actually be the ones who have to fire him, since Mueller is not a direct Trump appointee, but Rosenstein and Sessions are, and can be instantly fired by the President.

Nowhere in that chain of command is the "White House Counsel" which is the other part of the headline. So even IF the White House Counsel had objected, they wouldn't have been able to stop the firing(s) had Trump actually ordered them. The words "ordered" and "fired" are clearly past tense, and White House Counsel therefore had no legal way of stopping them, had they actually been directed.

So the headline, if nothing else, is fake news. Which makes it ripe to be presented on the morning news, per your point. The silver lining is that the article actually does cover some of the reasons why Mueller was inappropriately appointed as special counsel. That won't be carried in tomorrow morning's headlines, but it could actually continue to nag Mueller going forward, if not ultimately be some of the reasons to lead to his ouster.

109 posted on 01/25/2018 7:26:09 PM PST by Golden Eagle (That Nunes won't let the DOJ/FBI even see the memo tells you all you need to know about who to trust)
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To: Golden Eagle

Well said.


134 posted on 01/26/2018 7:25:30 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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