Posted on 06/13/2017 9:29:09 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
Reputed Trump confidant and Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy told PBS Newss Judy Woodruff Monday that President Donald Trump is considering dismissing Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to a tweet by Woodruff.
".@ChrisRuddyNMX tells me Pres Trump is "considering perhaps terminating" Robert Mueller as special counsel @NewsHour "
Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) June 12, 2017
The news comes on the eve of Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committe on the Russia investigation. This follows a hearing featuring the testimony of fired FBI director James Comey before the same body.
Mueller who, on his appointment by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, took independent control of the investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 elections had a shadow cast on his impartiality when Comey, a one-time mentee of Muellers who suceeded him at the Bureau, revealed under oath that he deliberately leaked a potentially privileged memo to the press specifically to ensure the appointment of a special counsel.
The ploy worked. Rosenstein, who was handling the investigation because Sessions had already recused himself based on his involvement in the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, came under immense political pressure to appoint a special counsel. Mueller was quickly applauded as an impartial choice by voices across the political spectrum.
Since his appointment, he has made signals as to the criminal nature of his investigation, hiring Andrew Weissmann, the former head of the DOJ criminal divisions fraud section, and former Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben.
A more controversial pick of Muellers was former prosecutor and WilmerHale partner Jeannie Rhee. In 2015, according to Politico, she performed work for the Clinton Foundation, defending it from FOIA requests related to Hillary Clintons private email server.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
You have got to be kidding.
More fake news. Gotta watch out people. I told you that BB is trending lefty for weeks, and Ruddy now comes out and backtracks, says he never even talked to Trump.
Be vewy, vewy caweful with fake news.
swamp creatures.
Direct conflict of interest if true. I guess only conservative lawyers care about such things. Muller is going to crater his reputation.
If true on it’s face, this is huge.
Either Mueller is in cahoots with the Trump usurpers, or he really found something bad on Trump and feels the need to dig in hard defensively
Young girls in Salem MA run around claiming to be bewitched and they accuse people of being witches. A number of woman (and at least one man) are put on trial and killed based on these accusations.
The judge figures that if the girl falls down screaming in court and point to someone, then that's all the evidence you need. The woman they point to must be a witch.
And then a girl names the Judge's wife as a witch.
It's all over in a flash: The judge announces it's a big hoax, the girls are faking it, there are no witches and the trials are over.
I think Trump should now feel free to announce: it's a big hoax, the Dems are faking it, there are no witches and the trials are over. He's done.
Wouldn’t this be one of those “good causes” Rosenstein was talking about? It’s obvious Mueller is stacking the deck against PRESIDENT Trump.
Curiouser and curiouser
So...you mean Mueller hasn’t hired Jeannie Rhee? That would be a relief.
Ruddy has been useless for years. He and Stone are two peas in a pod
I am really starting to get worried.
The racist Jeannie Rhee, ready to do the work that Kim Jong Un hasn't been able to accomplish: deposing Donald J. Trump.
Get Whitey, right Jeannie?!
Breitbart has been slowly going downhill since Andrew “died”...
Thanks for being the voice of sanity on these things, and for your insider views.
Maybe, Jim Robinson could make you the “Fake News” Moderator! ;-)
“Ruddy fired back in a statement of his own that he sent to Politico.
‘Spicer issued a bizarre late night press release that a) doesn’t deny my claim the President is considering firing Mueller and b) says I didn’t speak to the President about the matter — when I never claimed to have done so.
‘Memo to Sean: focus your efforts on exposing the flim-flam Russian allegations against POTUS and highlighting his remarkable achievements! Don’t waste time trying to undermine one of your few allies.’
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Hey, let’s hire a fox to guard the henhouse! Yea, that’s the ticket.
Trump lawyer won’t rule out firing special counsel in Russia probe
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawyer-wont-rule-out-firing-special-counsel-in-russia-probe-mueller/
Sessions needs to un-recuse himself and announce that it’s a direct result of Mueller’s failure to recuse since he’s so buddy buddy with the proven-corrupt Comey.
Mueller shouldn’t be anywhere near an investigation into this or any other administration.
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