Getting ANYONE confirmed this days by the US Senate is almost impossible….
The process give Democrats and Republican a chance to question Trump actions and polices….
It indicates that Donald Trump has been warned that a Mueller firing would be a redo of the Richard Nixon ‘Saturday Night Massacre ‘……
That was something that eventual lead to Nixon’s downfall….
I guess Trump’s lawyer have to keep refreshing their cliet memory about that piece of history, eh?
Slowly…. Donald Trump gets deeper in trouble by his own means….
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Trump fired his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the exchange.
Sessions made his position known in a phone call to White House counsel Donald McGahn last weekend, as Trump’s fury at Rosenstein peaked after the deputy attorney general approved the FBI’s raid April 9 on the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Sessions’s message to the White House, which has not previously been reported, underscores the political firestorm that Trump would invite should he attempt to remove the deputy attorney general. While Trump also has railed against Sessions at times, the protest resignation of an attorney general — which would be likely to incite other departures within the administration — would create a moment of profound crisis for the White House….
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