4/12/2018

ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [4-12-18] that if he wanted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, he would have months ago…Trump was disputing a New York Times report published Tuesday [4-10-18] that said the President sought to fire Mueller in December following reports that Mueller was seeking Trump’s financial records. CNN has also reported that Trump has wanted to fire Mueller for months. Later Thursday afternoon, the President tweeted about the Mueller investigation again, this time saying he ‘agreed with the historically cooperative, disciplined approach that we have engaged in with Robert Mueller (Unlike the Clintons!)…’ The legality of firing Mueller has been a topic of conversation inside the White House since the indictments of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, last fall, a source told CNN. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that the President ‘certainly believes he has the power” to fire him.”

Maegan Vazquez, “Trump insists that if he wanted to fire Mueller, it would be done,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 12, 2018, 1:10 pm