If President Trump is ready to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — who have drawn his ire over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — he wasn’t quite ready to announce it yet at a post-election press conference Tuesday.
“I’d rather answer that at a little bit different time,” Trump said. “We’re looking at a lot of different things, including cabinet. I’m very happy with most of my cabinet.”
According to a CNN report Monday, there are a number of candidates the White House is considering to replace Sessions while plans for Rosenstein’s successor — who reportedly offered a verbal resignation in September, only for the White House not to take him up on it — appeared to have stalled.
Sessions is currently recused from the Russia probe, giving Rosenstein oversight of Mueller. Sessions’ successor could in theory take back authority over the investigation. Firing Rosenstein while Sessions remained attorney general, meanwhile, would put Solicitor General Noel Francisco in charge of the special counsel.
Trump also dodged a question on Tuesday on whether he’d seek to remove Mueller.
“I could have ended it anytime I wanted. I didn’t. And there was no collusion. There was no anything. I didn’t,” Trump said. “They went after hackers in Moscow. I don’t know about that. They went after people with tax problems from years ago. They went after people with loans and other things, nothing to do with my campaign.”
He claimed that Mueller’s probe was an “an investigation where many, many millions of dollars” had been spent.
(In fact, the millions of dollars in assets former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed to turn over to the government as part of his plea deal stands to pay off a good deal of what Mueller’s probe has cost taxpayers so far.)
“There’s no collusion. It was supposed to be on collusion,” Trump said “There’s no collusion and I think it’s very bad for our country.”
Jeff needs to finish writing his letter first.
Bye-bye, Mr. Mueller. The orange fecal stain is going to fire you through the new AG he appoints. God damn it, Trump is such a brazen criminal and fraud. The House needs to rip him a new one and fast. There is no doubt that Mueller will be fired. He better hustle and get his indictments prepared. Sessions is rotten to the core, so just consider that as crooked as he is, he still recused himself from the Russia probe. Trump will find someone so stunningly unethical that Mueller will be fired and the constitutional crisis will begin. Impeachment cannot happen soon enough.
Dumb son of a bitch keeps calling Mueller’s probe a “witch hunt” and a “hoax”, all with an authoritative voice, but he doesn’t even know what the fucking probe is about…!!!
“There’s no collusion. It was supposed to be on collusion,” Trump said “There’s no collusion and I think it’s very bad for our country.”
No, you stupid mook, the probe was initiated to investigate Russian meddling in our National Elections.
The fact that you and yours were also discovered to have been heavily involved and invested in that meddling has almost nothing to do with the reason for the probe.
If I had a million dollars, I would gladly pay it just to be able to say those words directly to the man’s face.
Nah, the letter was undated. It’s been written for a while. I just don’t know if it’s been waiting in Session’s desk, or Trump’s.