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Republicans move to prevent Trump from sacking Mueller

Republican lawmakers are moving to prevent President Donald Trump from sacking special counsel Robert Mueller as the president questions his impartiality in election probe.

Reports say the opposition members made the move after Trump lashed out at what he considers to be the impartiality of an ongoing investigation into potential collusion with a foreign state.

“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,” Trump tweeted.

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According to Senator Jeff Flake, the Congress cannot stay quiet if the president decides to move in that direction.

“I don’t know what the designs are on Mueller, but it seems to be building toward that [dismissing Mueller], and I just hope it doesn’t go there, because it can’t. We can’t in Congress accept that,” said Flake.

Reports say John Dowd who happens to be Trump’s personal lawyer, has called on the Justice Department official overlooking the Russia investigation, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, to “bring an end” to the probe into Russia collusion in the last presidential election.

 

 

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