Papadopoulos被判刑（获特朗普总统特赦）, Cohen入狱三年, Manafort获刑7.5年、Gates, Flynn, Patten认罪， Roger Stone获刑40个月；Flynn、Manafort、Stone获特朗普总统特赦; Steve Bannon、纳瓦罗被判四个月监禁

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整天推，不给自己留点儿空间也不给他人留点儿空间，得罪人太多。

这是死地后生的治国方略。

 

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Washington (CNN) Key Republicans on Sunday warned President Donald Trump not to interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Trump began Sunday morning by criticizing the special counsel on Twitter, one day after his lawyer issued a statement saying he prays for the Justice Department to end Mueller's investigation.

Republicans strongly cautioned the President and his team to let Mueller do his work.

Here are their key quotes:

Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that he expects his colleagues in Congress, including GOP leadership, to push back on the President's comments and any potential move to force the end of the probe.

"I mean, talking to my colleagues all along it was, you know, once he goes after Mueller, then we'll take action," Flake said.

He likewise parted with Trump's triumphant assessment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday, saying that, counter to Trump's take, the dismissal of McCabe, who was ousted a little over 24 hours before he was to retire, "was a horrible day for democracy."

Ryan

AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, issued a statement on Sunday when asked for a reaction to the President's attacks on the Mueller probe.

"As the Speaker has always said, Mr. Mueller and his team should be able to do their job," Strong said.

When asked, Strong did not comment directly on whether Congress should advance legislation to protect Mueller.

Graham

South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said he continues to believe any attempt to fire Mueller would be catastrophic for Trump.

"If he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency," Graham said on CNN's "State of the Union."

He went on to pledge to do his part to maintain the independence of Mueller's investigation. Graham also said the Senate Judiciary Committee should conduct a public hearing on the firing of McCabe for the sake of transparency.

"I think we owe it to the average American to have a hearing in the Judiciary Committee where Mr. Sessions, Attorney General Sessions, comes forward with whatever documentation he has about the firing, and give Mr. McCabe a chance to defend himself," Graham said.

Grassley

Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley, responded later Sunday to Graham's call for a hearing, saying Grassley's staff requested documents from the inspector general or FBI office of professional responsibility "that establish the factual basis for recommendations made regarding McCabe" and anticipated the release of the inspector general's report.

"The committee will be in a good position to hear testimony from witnesses once that independent review is published," the statement read.

And asked about legislation to protect Mueller, Foy reiterated Grassley's previous statements saying the "special counsel's investigation should be allowed to continue uninterrupted."

Gowdy

House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, likewise vouched for Mueller and took issue with attacks on the probe from Dowd and Trump.

"I think the President's attorney frankly does him a disservice when he says that, and when he frames the investigation that way," Gowdy said on "Fox News Sunday."

He said later, "If you have an innocent client, Mr. Dowd, act like it."

The outgoing Republican did not mince words about McCabe either, saying the former top FBI official "undercut his credibility all by himself."

Gowdy, himself a former federal prosecutor, noted the FBI's own internal recommendation for the dismissal.

"The FBI is who recommended that he be fired," Gowdy said. "It wasn't crazy House Republicans, and it wasn't the Trump administration. It was his own fellow bureau agents."

Paul

Asked how he would respond to a potential attempt to dismiss Mueller, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, also on CNN's "State of the Union," said he opposed special prosecutors in general.

"I've said all along I don't like special prosecutors," Paul said. "I think they have too much power and too much power to go far afield of the question."

Pressed on the issue, Paul said he would not "advocate" for Trump to try to force Mueller out, just as he "would have never advocated for the appointment of a special prosecutor."

"The power is so unlimited that it's worrisome," Paul said.

Rubio

Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio said he did not like the way McCabe's firing was handled and that appropriate action could have come after the release of a report from the Justice Department inspector general.

"He should've been allowed to finish through the weekend," Rubio said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Rubio, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, vouched for Mueller's investigation later in the interview when asked about Trump's tweet Saturday night that the probe "should never have been started."

"I remain confident that the special counsel is going to conduct a probe that is fair and thorough and is going to arrive at the truth and is not going to go down rabbit holes that are not places that we need to be going," Rubio said.

Lankford

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford, also a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on ABC's "This Week" that he does not think Trump will move to oust Mueller despite Dowd's comments.

"I don't see the President firing him," Lankford said. "I think the White House has said 10 times, maybe more, that they're not going to fire Robert Mueller, they want him to be able to finish the investigation."

Democrats
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff both called on their Republican colleagues to temper the President.

Schumer said in a statement that Trump is "floating trial balloons" to derail the investigation and said Republicans "have an obligation" to establish that Mueller's firing would be a red line.

Schiff, on ABC's "This Week," said he would hope if Trump tries to oust Mueller, then the House would pass a law reinstating the former FBI director as an independent counsel.

"Members need to speak out now, don't wait for the crisis," he said.

On McCabe, Schiff said the firing might have been justified, but that Trump's repeated attacks on McCabe in the lead-up to the firing could belie an inappropriate motivation behind the move.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, of Illinois, said on "Fox News Sunday" that he agreed with Gowdy's remarks, adding that "any effort by the President or his counsel to try to stop this investigation needs to be resisted on a bipartisan basis."

Mirroring Schiff's comments, Durbin said any attempt to fire Mueller would be a "constitutional crisis" and that "it would be incumbent on Congress, on a bipartisan basis, to use the tools at its disposal."

He referenced legislation that would aim to protect the special counsel from Trump.

"We ought to pass those bills now," Durbin said. "This President is engaged in desperate and reckless conduct to intimidate the law enforcement agencies in this country and to try to stop the special counsel."

 

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Washington (CNN) Key Republicans on Sunday warned President Donald Trump not to interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Trump began Sunday morning by criticizing the special counsel on Twitter, one day after his lawyer issued a statement saying he prays for the Justice Department to end Mueller's investigation.

Republicans strongly cautioned the President and his team to let Mueller do his work.

Here are their key quotes:

Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that he expects his colleagues in Congress, including GOP leadership, to push back on the President's comments and any potential move to force the end of the probe.
"I mean, talking to my colleagues all along it was, you know, once he goes after Mueller, then we'll take action," Flake said.
He likewise parted with Trump's triumphant assessment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday, saying that, counter to Trump's take, the dismissal of McCabe, who was ousted a little over 24 hours before he was to retire, "was a horrible day for democracy."

Ryan

AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, issued a statement on Sunday when asked for a reaction to the President's attacks on the Mueller probe.

"As the Speaker has always said, Mr. Mueller and his team should be able to do their job," Strong said.

When asked, Strong did not comment directly on whether Congress should advance legislation to protect Mueller.

Graham

South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said he continues to believe any attempt to fire Mueller would be catastrophic for Trump.

"If he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency," Graham said on CNN's "State of the Union."

He went on to pledge to do his part to maintain the independence of Mueller's investigation. Graham also said the Senate Judiciary Committee should conduct a public hearing on the firing of McCabe for the sake of transparency.

"I think we owe it to the average American to have a hearing in the Judiciary Committee where Mr. Sessions, Attorney General Sessions, comes forward with whatever documentation he has about the firing, and give Mr. McCabe a chance to defend himself," Graham said.

Grassley

Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley, responded later Sunday to Graham's call for a hearing, saying Grassley's staff requested documents from the inspector general or FBI office of professional responsibility "that establish the factual basis for recommendations made regarding McCabe" and anticipated the release of the inspector general's report.

"The committee will be in a good position to hear testimony from witnesses once that independent review is published," the statement read.

And asked about legislation to protect Mueller, Foy reiterated Grassley's previous statements saying the "special counsel's investigation should be allowed to continue uninterrupted."

Gowdy

House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, likewise vouched for Mueller and took issue with attacks on the probe from Dowd and Trump.

"I think the President's attorney frankly does him a disservice when he says that, and when he frames the investigation that way," Gowdy said on "Fox News Sunday."

He said later, "If you have an innocent client, Mr. Dowd, act like it."

The outgoing Republican did not mince words about McCabe either, saying the former top FBI official "undercut his credibility all by himself."

Gowdy, himself a former federal prosecutor, noted the FBI's own internal recommendation for the dismissal.

"The FBI is who recommended that he be fired," Gowdy said. "It wasn't crazy House Republicans, and it wasn't the Trump administration. It was his own fellow bureau agents."

Paul

Asked how he would respond to a potential attempt to dismiss Mueller, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, also on CNN's "State of the Union," said he opposed special prosecutors in general.

"I've said all along I don't like special prosecutors," Paul said. "I think they have too much power and too much power to go far afield of the question."

Pressed on the issue, Paul said he would not "advocate" for Trump to try to force Mueller out, just as he "would have never advocated for the appointment of a special prosecutor."

"The power is so unlimited that it's worrisome," Paul said.

Rubio

Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio said he did not like the way McCabe's firing was handled and that appropriate action could have come after the release of a report from the Justice Department inspector general.

"He should've been allowed to finish through the weekend," Rubio said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Rubio, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, vouched for Mueller's investigation later in the interview when asked about Trump's tweet Saturday night that the probe "should never have been started."

"I remain confident that the special counsel is going to conduct a probe that is fair and thorough and is going to arrive at the truth and is not going to go down rabbit holes that are not places that we need to be going," Rubio said.

Lankford

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford, also a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on ABC's "This Week" that he does not think Trump will move to oust Mueller despite Dowd's comments.

"I don't see the President firing him," Lankford said. "I think the White House has said 10 times, maybe more, that they're not going to fire Robert Mueller, they want him to be able to finish the investigation."

Democrats
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff both called on their Republican colleagues to temper the President.

Schumer said in a statement that Trump is "floating trial balloons" to derail the investigation and said Republicans "have an obligation" to establish that Mueller's firing would be a red line.

Schiff, on ABC's "This Week," said he would hope if Trump tries to oust Mueller, then the House would pass a law reinstating the former FBI director as an independent counsel.

"Members need to speak out now, don't wait for the crisis," he said.

On McCabe, Schiff said the firing might have been justified, but that Trump's repeated attacks on McCabe in the lead-up to the firing could belie an inappropriate motivation behind the move.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, of Illinois, said on "Fox News Sunday" that he agreed with Gowdy's remarks, adding that "any effort by the President or his counsel to try to stop this investigation needs to be resisted on a bipartisan basis."

Mirroring Schiff's comments, Durbin said any attempt to fire Mueller would be a "constitutional crisis" and that "it would be incumbent on Congress, on a bipartisan basis, to use the tools at its disposal."

He referenced legislation that would aim to protect the special counsel from Trump.

"We ought to pass those bills now," Durbin said. "This President is engaged in desperate and reckless conduct to intimidate the law enforcement agencies in this country and to try to stop the special counsel."

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(CNN) While some Republicans issued sharp warnings Sunday to President Donald Trump against firing special counsel Robert Mueller, recent efforts in Congress to protect the special counsel have stalled.

Republican leaders have said they see no reason to intervene given what they considered good cooperation between the White House and the Mueller team.

But that was before this weekend.

Tensions escalated after Trump's lawyer, John Dowd, issued a prayer Saturday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would "bring an end" to Mueller's probe into possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russians in Moscow's meddling in the 2016 election.

That was followed by unprecedented tweets from the President going after Mueller by name, an approach he's avoided as he's sought to appear accommodating in the investigation.

"The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime," he tweeted Saturday.

Trump followed this Sunday morning with another tweet more directly condemning Mueller's team.

"Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans?" Trump wrote. "Another Dem recently added ... does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!"

Reacting to the backlash over Trump and Dowd's remarks, White House special counsel Ty Cobb emphasized in a statement Sunday night that the President is not considering firing Mueller.

"In response to media speculation and related questions being posed to the administration, the White House yet again confirms that the President is not considering or discussing the firing of the special counsel, Robert Mueller," Cobb said.

How did Republicans react?
Republican lawmakers on Sunday sought to warn the President that any action against Mueller would not be tolerated by Congress.

"If he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency," said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on CNN's "State of the Union."

Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona made similar remarks on the show.

"I mean, talking to my colleagues all along it was, you know, once he goes after Mueller, then we'll take action," he said.
House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, himself a former federal prosecutor, also defended Mueller.

"I think the President's attorney frankly does him a disservice when he says that, and when he frames the investigation that way," the South Carolina Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." He added later: "If you have an innocent client, Mr. Dowd, act like it."

Their comments potentially signal stepped up action by Congress as lawmakers return this week to the most serious threat they've faced of possible action by the White House against Mueller.

But it's unclear whether Congress will make any moves. Lawmakers face a must-pass spending bill amid other major action in the Senate on sex trafficking and a war authorization — all before they leave town Friday night for a two-week recess.

Stalled bills to protect special counsel
Concerns about Trump trying to push out Mueller have been brewing since the former FBI director was appointed to the job last May. CNN reported in January that Trump wanted Mueller fired last June, but White House counsel Don McGahn refused to order the Justice Department to let the special prosecutor go. The New York Times first reported the incident, citing four people who were told of the matter; Trump denied that he moved to have Mueller fired.

Senators introduced two bipartisan bills last year aimed at protecting a special counsel from political pressure from the White House. The "Special Counsel Integrity Act," introduced by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, would allow a special counsel to be fired only for "misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or other good cause, including violation of DOJ policies."

Another bill, the "Special Counsel Independence Protection Act," was introduced by Graham and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and would require a federal judge to first sign off on any action to discipline or fire a special counsel.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing in September that looked at the two bills, but the legislation has gone nowhere since then.

The reaction by GOP leadership
In January, after the news broke that Trump had tried to get Mueller fired, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee urged Trump to let Mueller's investigation "work its course" and said he was "open" to considering the legislation that would shield the special counsel from political pressure.

"I just don't think the President -- as unpredictable as he is -- would fire Mueller, and I take the view, and I said so maybe not directly to the President, but indirectly to the President: Just let this work its course," Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said in an interview with CNN.

At around the same time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he saw no efforts underway at the White House to undermine the Mueller investigation.

"I don't feel any particular need to reach out to protect someone who seems to need no protection," McConnell told reporters. A spokesman for the majority leader did not have anything to add Sunday.

Grassley said he wanted the two bills to be reconciled and then he would examine any potential constitutional concerns about the separation of powers.

His spokesman, Taylor Foy, did not comment directly Sunday on whether the committee will move forward with the legislation, but said, "Chairman Grassley has said on many occasions that the special counsel's investigation should be allowed to continue uninterrupted."

Coons issued a statement Sunday calling for more senators to support his bill with Tillis.

"Any attempt by the President to obstruct or remove the special counsel would create a constitutional crisis and represent an attack on the core American principle that nobody, including the President of the United States, is above the law," he said.

A spokesman for Tillis did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday on whether the senator will try to bring more attention around his bill given the events over the weekend. In January, Tillis spokesman Daniel Keylin said the bill didn't have the support it needed to move through Congress, in part because the President's team was showing signs of cooperation with the special counsel at the time.

Tillis and Graham also joined with Grassley last week to call for a second special counsel to investigate alleged abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department's handling of the Trump-Russia investigation up until the appointment of Mueller — a move that backs up complaints made by Trump about the Justice Department.

Responding to Trump's tweets this weekend, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, tweeted Sunday that "the President must cease and desist with these attacks."

She was one of several other Democrats who took to Twitter this weekend to defend Mueller, while Republicans were largely silent aside from those who appeared on the Sunday morning shows.

A spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan did not comment directly on the question of whether Congress should move forward with legislation to safeguard Mueller. But when asked about the President's tweets this weekend, AshLee Strong said, "As the speaker has always said, Mr. Mueller and his team should be able to do their job."

 

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特朗普有种就把Robert Mueller炒了鱿鱼啊。

 

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特朗普有种就把Robert Mueller炒了鱿鱼啊。

让子弹多飞一会儿。

 

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让子弹多飞一会儿。

我一起在期盼Trump把Mueller开了。

IF Trump has two balls.

 

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我一起在期盼Trump把Mueller开了。

IF Trump has two balls.

他的律师已经开始造势了。
川普是不怕事大的人。

 

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狂风暴雨就要来了？

 

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估计trump天天看CNN，一听McCabe有memo，马上回应。。。


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他的律师已经开始造势了。
川普是不怕事大的人。

 

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说的到底是用笔记录还是录音？

川普明显在谈记录。单方面的记录有啥用？

 

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Crooked, collusion. 这是严重的指控。

 

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(CNN) If President Donald Trump isn't planning to fire special counsel Bob Mueller, he sure is doing a good job of faking it.
Consider the last 48 hours alone:

• Attorney General Jeff Sessions fires FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday night, less than two days before McCabe was set to retire from the bureau -- where he had worked for 20+ years -- with full pension.
• Trump celebrates the firing via tweet even later Friday night. He writes: "Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!"
• On Saturday morning, Trump attorney John Dowd released a statement calling for an end to the Mueller investigation. "I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe's boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier," said Dowd. Although he originally told the Daily Beast that he was speaking for the President in that statement, Dowd recanted and told CNN later he was only speaking a personal capacity.
• On Saturday evening, Trump tweeted that "the Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime," adding: "It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!"
• Trump, on Sunday morning, tweets this: "Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I don't believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?"
• He tweets again minutes later: "Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added...does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!"

That series of events -- and tweets -- taken in a vacuum, would send a very clear message that Trump is sick and tired of Mueller's investigation into Russia's meddling into the 2016 election and the possibility of collusion with the Russians.

The President wants this whole thing over with. Now.

But, the context is even more damning in that regard. Trump has, for months, attacked the Mueller investigation as a "hoax" and a "witch hunt." He celebrated the end of the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russian meddling despite the fact that two of the Republicans on the committee seemed to undermine its conclusion within days. (Not to mention the fact that none of the Democrats on the committee were consulted about the decision to end the investigation.)

Then there is the lying. Because Trump purposely changes the accepted facts, let's go through some of them.

1. Mueller, McCabe and fired FBI Director James Comey were Republicans. Mueller was appointed FBI director by George W. Bush. Comey has said under oath that he was a registered Republican his entire life -- until very recently. McCabe has said he voted for Republicans for president in every election prior to 2016.

2. Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a man put into his job by Sessions -- Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department. Sessions' decision to recuse himself -- because he was a surrogate for Trump during the 2016 election -- is why Rosenstein is overseeing the probe.

3. Trump is right that there is no collusion -- yet. Remember (as he doesn't) that the Mueller investigation and the Senate Intelligence Committee are ongoing. That doesn't mean they will find collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. But, it does mean that Trump can't definitively say no collusion has been found. What he could say -- but won't -- is that no evidence of collusion has been made public to date.

4. Whether or not any collusion is found, it's impossible to describe the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt. Three former aides to Trump's campaign -- including Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser -- have pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and are cooperating with the investigation. Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, faces more than 300 years in prison due to a series of charges of financial malfeasance Mueller has brought against him. More than a dozen Russians have been charged by Mueller with building and executing a broad-scale strategy aimed at influencing the 2016 election. That's not a hoax. Or a witch hunt. Or a media-created controversy.

5. There are four members of Mueller's team who have made donations to Democrats in the past. But, they are also [URL='http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/politics/meet-the-mueller-team/']undisputed experts in a variety of fields related to the investigation. And, Rosenstein has already said these donations are not disqualifying.[/URL]

6. Whether or not Trump saw McCabe writing memos is totally immaterial. The memos, which document what Comey told McCabe of his conversations with Trump, have been turned over to Mueller, who has also interviewed McCabe about the firing of Comey last spring.

Even if you believe the Dowd statement was a case of mistaken attribution, why did Dowd choose to say it fewer than 24 hours after McCabe was fired and amid a tweetstorm by Trump about Mueller, Comey and McCabe?
That's one hell of a coincidence, right?

"If you have an innocent client Mr. Dowd, act like it," scolded Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican and former federal prosecutor, on "Fox News Sunday." "Russia attacked our country. Let special counsel Mueller figure that out. If you believe as we have found there is no evidence of collusion, you should want special counsel Mueller to take all the time, to have all the independence he needs to do his job."

Trump's lawyers have repeatedly insisted that the President has no plans to fire Mueller. But, everything coming out of the White House in the wake the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is that only Trump knows his mind. And that anyone who makes predictions about what Trump is thinking or will do is guessing.

Yes, firing Mueller would likely be political suicide by Trump.

"If he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency," predicted South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, who appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. "The only reason that Mr. Mueller could be dismissed is for cause. I see no cause when it comes to Mr. Mueller."

But, the idea Trump wouldn't do something solely because it might be bad politics is belied by virtually his entire political career in which he has taken pride in doing exactly the thing everyone says he shouldn't.

There is no more sacred cow in our current politics than Mueller. Which may well mean that Trump is getting ready to take him down.

 

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