{"id":10178,"date":"2018-04-11T09:34:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2018-04-11T09:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:34:32","slug":"trump-at-crisis-point-on-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/trump-at-crisis-point-on-mueller\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump at crisis point on Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump believes he can fire Robert Mueller\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nGsedkT35dw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>====================================<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Hill<\/strong><br \/>\nAlexander Bolton and Melanie Zanona<br \/>\n4\/10\/2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>President Trump&#8217;s showdown with <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/robert-mueller\" data-nid=\"364882\">Robert Mueller<\/a><\/span> headed toward a crisis point on Tuesday, with the White House saying Trump has legal authority to fire the special counsel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Republicans unnerved by the president\u2019s anger in public and private sought to talk him down, fearing a \u201cSaturday night massacre\u201d-style series of firings harking back to the Nixon era was growing more likely.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GOP lawmakers fear presidential firings of Mueller, Attorney General <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/jeff-sessions\" data-nid=\"188198\">Jeff Sessions<\/a><\/span> or Deputy Attorney General <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/rod-rosenstein\" data-nid=\"365107\">Rod Rosenstein<\/a><\/span> would cause chaos in Washington and dim Republican hopes of holding their congressional majorities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/chuck-grassley\" data-nid=\"188248\">Chuck Grassley<\/a><\/span> (R-Iowa) declared in a CNN interview Tuesday that \u201cit would be suicide for the president to fire him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI have made my views public, and I hope he\u2019s listening to those of us who say it would be a mistake,\u201d said Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including video and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/382586-trump-at-crisis-point-on-mueller?userid=130029\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/382586-trump-at-crisis-point-on-mueller?userid=130029<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==================================== The Hill Alexander Bolton and Melanie Zanona 4\/10\/2018 Excerpt: President Trump&#8217;s showdown with Robert Mueller headed toward a crisis point on Tuesday, with the White House saying Trump has legal authority to fire the special counsel. 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