{"id":28070,"date":"2017-06-13T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28070"},"modified":"2017-06-13T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T20:47:10","slug":"will-trump-fire-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/will-trump-fire-mueller\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump Fire Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Special Prosecutor is doing something that makes him unsatisfactory to Donald Trump: his job.&#160; And the more he does his job, the more that threatens to expose the many crimes committed by Trump and too many Republicans to count.&#160; Trump has actually said that he is considering it.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0613TrumpMueller\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0613TrumpMueller\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0613TrumpMueller.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The big news Monday night was that President Trump is apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/06\/12\/trump-friend-floats-possibility-of-firing-special-counsel-in-russian-probe\/?utm_term=.8fb32fc3e2e7\" target=\"_blank\">thinking about firing the special counsel in charge of the federal Russia investigation<\/a>, Robert S. Mueller III.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger news is that Trump actually needs to be talked out of this.<\/p>\n<p>Newsmax chief executive and Trump confidant Christopher Ruddy took to PBS in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/trump-confidant-think-hes-considering-perhaps-terminating-special-counsel\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview that aired Monday evening<\/a> to say he thought Trump was &quot;considering perhaps terminating&quot; the recently appointed Mueller. Ruddy said this shortly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdawsey1\/status\/874414014868094976\" target=\"_blank\">after visiting the White House<\/a>, it should be noted, which suggests that it didn&#8217;t come out of nowhere. And it seemed to be as much a warning as a trial balloon; even before that interview aired, Ruddy and others were warning Trump strongly against that course of action.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It could trigger something well beyond anything they ever imagined,&quot; Ruddy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/06\/12\/trump-special-counsel-robert-mueller-surrogates-239447\" target=\"_blank\">told Politico<\/a>. &quot;I think firing Mueller could trigger an impeachment process. It could be very dangerous. I don\u2019t think it\u2019d be very smart at all.&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/06\/13\/trumps-biggest-problem-he-cant-be-saved-from-himself\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I actually agree with Ruddey that it would not be very smart al all, and therein lies the danger.&#160; Not very smart described Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten perfectly.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> discussed the rules.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_170612\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell<\/a> had two segments.&#160; In the first, he and his panel call it a tacit admission of guilt.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_asuperguilty_170612\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the second, he examines possible Republican responses.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_a2react_170612\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If he does one of two things will collapse.&#160; We will lose either the Republican Reich or the United States of America.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Prosecutor is doing something that makes him unsatisfactory to Donald Trump: his job.&#160; And the more he does his job, the more that threatens to expose the many crimes committed by Trump and too many Republicans to count.&#160; Trump has actually said that he is considering it. The big news Monday night was that <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/will-trump-fire-mueller\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}