Indirectly it was, he manipulated the operation. It was carried out by the hit men of the deep state swamp of the Trump haters in the FBI bureaucracy and the lawyers in Southern District of the US Attorneys office also a hotbed of Trump haters. Mueller is indeed a rouge hired hit man out to take down Trump at any cost by any means possible.
Trump can't afford to fire Mueller but he sure needs to find a way to force out Jeff Sessions and also Rod Rosenstein and put someone in there that will do what Sessions has been fighting tooth and nail to not do, to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the most corrupt deep state swamp cabal led by the likes of Obama and his paid hit man Robert Mueller and et.al. before they manage to take him down.
Maybe Sessions could end up taking a long unexpected but well deserved permanent nap the way Justice Scalia did. Either way Sessions is the devil's hatchet man here.
Trump can’t afford to fire Mueller...
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At this point he can. All he has to do is state his case which he’s practically done already.
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Indirectly it was, he manipulated the operation.
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The raid was the result of a Mueller referral.
If we were to put prosecutors with an unlimited budget on a witch hunt of every politician, there would be a raid every five minutes.
There was obviously collusion amongst commie-fa DoJers.