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Donald Trump ordered Robert Mueller fired but later backed down, NYT says

January 28, 2018 04:31·
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leading the probe into allegations of collusion between the US president’s campaign team and Russia in the 2016 election

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leading the probe into allegations of collusion between the US president’s campaign team and Russia in the 2016 election

Mueller was appointed special counsel by Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped aside because of his own close involvement with the Trump campaign.

The story - which Trump told reporters in Davos, Switzerland, was "fake news" on Friday - has once again given the appearance that Trump has sought to obstruct justice as the FBI investigates his campaign's ties to Russian Federation.

There are two bills in Congress, both of which have some Republican support, that would protect Mueller from being fired by Trump. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway have maintained all along that Mueller is in no danger. John Dowd, an attorney for the president, declined to comment.

Following former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate intelligence committee last June, Trump ordered aides to smear three potential FBI witnesses who could confirm that the President tried to end or influence Mueller's investigation, Foreign Policy reported on Friday. There are two competing bills at the moment.

Democrats involved in Congress's Russian Federation investigation were so anxious by Republicans' shrugs about protecting Mueller that in December Sen.

Mueller and his team surely have evidence on obstruction of justice that has not yet been made public.

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In December, the Ethics Committee cleared Nunes in its investigation into whether he had disclosed classified information to the Trump White House, creating an avenue for the California Republican to return to the helm of the panel's Russian Federation investigation. They warned that the probe could last years and would ruin his first term in office. And Comey testified at that time he gave his memos about his interactions with the president to the special counsel to read. Reasons apparently included: Mueller had once disputed fees at a Trump golf club; he once worked at a law firm that represents Trump's son-in-law; and he had interviewed - with Trump - to replace Comey at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The dispute was hardly a dispute at all.

Scaramucci was responding to reports that the President called for Mueller's firing last June. Still under discussion is whether the interview can be written questions, as opposed to in-person questioning. The Justice Department did not immediately comment either.

Mueller's investigators hope to interview Trump soon.

Trump has repeatedly criticized the probe which he says is an attack on the legitimacy of his presidency. And while perhaps nothing better illustrates the President's fundamental misunderstanding of the role of our executive branch than his conflation of obstruction with fighting back, he has displayed a dizzying and at times remarkable pattern of obstructionist behavior while in office.

This cabal appears to have set goals of protecting Obama, clearing Hillary, defeating Trump, and bringing down the new president the people had elected, before he had even taken his oath. Dowd's disclosure did only not name the people nor provide a breakdown of how many were interviewed only by Mueller's team. The president also believed Mueller had a conflict of interest because he worked for the same law firm that was representing Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner. "You build it around the timing".

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