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McGhan: Trump bid to remove Mueller recalled ‘Saturday Night Massacre’
NY Post ^ | 06/10/2021 | Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 06/10/2021 8:23:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former White House counsel Don McGhan told lawmakers last week that then-President Donald Trump’s effort to get Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired in June 2017 marked a potential “point of no return” for the administration, according to a transcript released Wednesday.

“If the Acting Attorney General [Rod Rosenstein] received what he thought was a direction from the counsel to the President to remove a special counsel, he would either have to remove the special counsel or resign,” McGhan told members of the House Judiciary Committee in the June 4 interview.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: mcghan; muller; saturdaynight; trump
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To: ScubaDiver

Trump is the only Republican that sides with the citizens and the rule of law, so any other Republican that is committed to the Bush Plan for North Mexico would not have that problem.


21 posted on 06/10/2021 8:56:43 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: circlecity
Mueller was FAKING that DEMENTIA so that everyone would feel sorry for him and not go after him.....he's going to be TEACHING A CLASS at YALE(?) about his REPORT!

He SHOULD be in PRISON!

22 posted on 06/10/2021 8:57:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

McGhan, you DUMBASS....it could have been a TWO-FER!!


23 posted on 06/10/2021 8:59:47 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“If the Acting Attorney General [Rod Rosenstein] received what he thought was a direction from the counsel to the President to remove a special counsel, he would either have to remove the special counsel or resign,” McGhan told members of the House Judiciary Committee in the June 4 interview.

IF...IF...IF...IF...IF.

IF the Queen had balls she would be the King too


24 posted on 06/10/2021 9:02:50 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No Amazon, No Chy-Na made )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you read that transcript it is full of leading questions that would never be allowed in a courtroom. Truth is secondary to spin.


25 posted on 06/10/2021 9:08:23 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Fido969

It was a closed door session with him, so you make the call.


26 posted on 06/10/2021 9:21:04 AM PDT by pas
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump fully had the authority to remove Mueller. That he didn’t was both good and bad. Good because he knew he had nothing to hide and it would have been taken as an admission of guilt if he had, and bad because he allowed Mueller or whoever he was a figurehead for to draw a six month investigation into 3 years.


27 posted on 06/10/2021 9:21:18 AM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: PMAS

If Rosenstein thought he got directions, he would have had to call up the President and get clarification. There are like 3 layers of speculation in there.


28 posted on 06/10/2021 9:25:15 AM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
McGhan saved our president, and I believe President Trump was glad he decided to do what was best for im at that time.

As for Nadler: “I also look forward to advancing legislation that would allow us to enforce our own subpoenas in a far more timely manner, no matter who holds power in Washington.”, all I can say is do it. Obama personnel ignored several subpoenas. So that would mean we could subpoena Biden's personnel and question them, and they couldn't refuse.

29 posted on 06/10/2021 9:43:40 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: webheart
If Trump had fired Mueller, the consequences would have been political, not legal.

Everything related to the oversight of a special counsel is internal to the U.S. Justice Department, which means it comes entirely under the authority of the President.

30 posted on 06/10/2021 9:54:21 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The massacre was the day Mueller was appointed. The were nothing to investigate. But there was a 2018 congressional election that needed to be interfered with.


31 posted on 06/10/2021 11:18:29 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: circlecity
"At his congressional appearance Mueller didn’t even know what was in his own report."

When Mueller fought so hard not to testify, was the day I knew he hadn't written, much less been involved in the investigation he was supposed to conduct. His testimony proved me right. Weissman ran the show.

32 posted on 06/10/2021 11:43:34 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"Every one knew by June of 2017 that there was nothing to the Russian collusion delusion, yet the GOP left Trump to twist in the wind."

Which is why there is no reforming the GOP. It can't be done. If they aren't RINOS already when they're elected, they will eventually become RINOS, if they stay in D.C. long enough.

33 posted on 06/10/2021 11:45:59 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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34 posted on 06/10/2021 12:25:50 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In hindsight, it is exquisitely clear that Mueller should have been fired. Rosenstein too.


35 posted on 06/10/2021 5:49:36 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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