Washington – The White House says President Donald Trump has no intention of firing special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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White House legislative director Marc Short said Sunday he has no reason to believe they would be removed despite Trump’s increasing agitation over Mueller’s probe into his campaign’s ties to Russia. Rosenstein oversees that investigation.
Complaining of a media fixation, Short tells NBC: “It’s like there’s an hourglass waiting there to see, OK, when’s he going to fire Rosenstein? When’s he going to fire Mueller? … As far as I know, the president has no intention of firing these individuals.”
Short says he can’t rule it out in the long term, though, because it’s not known “how far off this investigation is going to vee
I hope he fires them bkrov and let all you Trump haters yell and cream from “hant biz morgan”. Call him a liar or whatever else you’d like. We don’t care
He should not fire Rosenstein. He’s defending our democracy.
I love how Trump is toying with them. I am sure they are up at all hours of the night wondering if Trump will fire them tomorrow. They picked the wrong man to play with.
He won’t be impeached because he’ll be forced to resign and then pardoned by Pence like Nixon. But he’ll still be subject to state pen in NY.