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White House Disputes ‘Rumor’ That Trump Plans To Fire Mueller
Daily Caller ^ | 12/17/2017 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 12/17/2017 6:52:05 AM PST by advance_copy

A rumor purportedly circulating around Capitol Hill that President Trump plans to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller is false, says White House Special Counsel Ty Cobb.

“As the White House has said for months, there is no consideration being given to firing the Special Counsel,” Cobb told The Daily Caller on Saturday in response to growing speculation that Mueller will soon be canned.

Trump has made no public comments about Mueller over the past week, but Democrats have increasingly speculated that Trump will find a way to shut down the special counsel probe.

Republicans have accused Democrats of raising that concern in order to deflect from revelations this week about anti-Trump text messages sent by the FBI agent who oversaw that Russia investigation went it began last year. Peter Strzok, the agent, was removed from Mueller’s investigation when his politically charged text messages were discovered.

Democrats have said that they fear that Trump will use the text messages as an excuse to shut down Mueller’s inquiry, which started in May.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fbi; jamescomey; mueller; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rosenstein
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To: plain talk

<< “ Now we have someone that will fight back and send out tweets. “ >>

LOL! I know that sounds ridiculous, but it’s true.

And, as for those tweets, they have been a raging success as the poison tip of the Trump spear. For some reason, those ridiculous little tweets have set Leftists off, exposed their fasist philosophy to silence all others, and spiked them into raging madness.


21 posted on 12/17/2017 8:18:11 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

I agree. I meant it to sound like pathetic because it is. The problem is not Trump who is doing his part. However he gets zero help from the rest of the party.


22 posted on 12/17/2017 8:21:45 AM PST by plain talk
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To: advance_copy

This rumor was spread on TV by some Communist woman congressman from CA.


23 posted on 12/17/2017 8:27:59 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: advance_copy

Trump should call for a special counesel to investigate—

Mueller and his team, Hillary Clinton and the FBI


24 posted on 12/17/2017 8:40:07 AM PST by Cubs Fan (Trump is all that stands between America and left wing totalitarianism)
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To: advance_copy

The left is desperate now. The narrative collapsed. The seditious messages and plans are being exposed.

firing Meuller would be a saving grace to some in the FBI, Hillary Clinton and the DNC not to mention some in Justice and maybe, just maybe in intelligence.

The fact that this is sedition is becoming clearer.

I don’t want to tar everyone in the FBI with the work of a few in the upper echelons. They do protect the country.

Now, it is time for them to step up and protect themselves by exposing the traitors among them.


25 posted on 12/17/2017 8:43:54 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: advance_copy

Putting him in the public stocks with a few dozen bushels of rotten tomatoes would be a start.


26 posted on 12/17/2017 9:14:54 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: advance_copy

Trump knows and follows the adage of “never distract your opponent when he is making a mistake”.

The Mueller “Investigation” is gutting the left. They are desperate to stop it!


27 posted on 12/17/2017 9:40:32 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Build KateÂ’s Wall! Never Forget!)
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To: Redleg Duke

Imagine their gobsmackedness. ‘No weapon formed against..’


28 posted on 12/17/2017 9:53:47 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: RitaOK

Trump’s tweets are strategery operating WAY (yugely, bigly ?) inside of the left’s OODA loop.


29 posted on 12/17/2017 11:12:54 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: plain talk

Those tweets have the left in ruins.


30 posted on 12/17/2017 11:15:21 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: OpusatFR
"Mueller came to the FBI during a difficult time for the bureau. The law-enforcement agency was undergoing some soul-searching after the 2001 arrest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen on espionage charges.

The bureau also had faced severe criticism for its handling of various other events, such as the 1993 Waco siege that resulted in more than 70 people dying. Mueller declared at his confirmation hearings that he would “restore the public’s confidence in the FBI.""

Mueller, just making the case against the FBI that the rest of America doesn't want to do.

31 posted on 12/17/2017 11:15:57 AM PST by Paladin2
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A SC should be appointed to discover if Mueller controls Rosenweasel rather than vice versa.


32 posted on 12/17/2017 11:19:31 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: jdsteel
"Not fired; uncloaked, investigated, interrogated and incarcerated. Unless they sing like canaries."

Arrested for Treason and Sedition and RICO.

33 posted on 12/17/2017 11:27:08 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: advance_copy
I actually expect that the IG’s report is going to outine a lot of misconduct among Mueller and his staff and other high ranking Obama DOJ & FBI staff.

When that happens, I hope Sessions through an underling will discipline and.or fire most of Mueller staff per 28 CFR 600.7 (c). Actually, I hope a grand jury will indict a number of them, so DOJ can make examples of them by putting some in jail or flipping on Hillsry.

“....(c) The Special Counsel and staff shall be subject to disciplinary action for misconduct and breach of ethical duties under the same standards and to the same extent as are other employees of the Department of Justice. Inquiries into such matters shall be handled through the appropriate office of the Department upon the approval of the Attorney General. ....”

I don't expect the Special Council Mueller to be fired but I expect his career to be ruined and him to consider resigning.

Then again, I have been wrong before.

34 posted on 12/17/2017 12:35:56 PM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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