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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 05:01 PM Nov 2018

OH HELL NO.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/who-is-matthew-whitaker-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-resigns-at-trumps-request.html



Appearing on CNN in July 2017 — before he was in his current position as Sessions’s chief of staff — Whitaker mused about a scenario in which Trump might fire Sessions and replace him with a temporary attorney general. Whitaker noted that federal regulations still gave the attorney general power over the budget for a special counsel. That temporary replacement, he then said, could move to choke off Mueller’s funding.


“So I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment,” Whitaker said, “and that attorney general doesn’t fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt.”


No way in hell we let Trump get away with this.

Over my fucking dead body.
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brewens

(13,589 posts)
1. Can a Gofundme sort of thing be used to finance Mueller? I'd say he'd get enough donations to carry
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 05:05 PM
Nov 2018

on in style. Wouldn't that chap Trumps ass!

Wednesdays

(17,380 posts)
4. Count on the Repukes to find something "illegal" about that
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 05:24 PM
Nov 2018

And use the courts to block that mode of funding, too.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
2. I'm still in fight mode.
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 05:05 PM
Nov 2018

There may be other dead bodies (figuratively) before it is over. The dummy in our WH is promoting violence, I will give him words that cut like a sword. "The word is greater than the sword."

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
6. Too late. Mueller has gathered a truckload of evidence already.
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 05:29 PM
Nov 2018

He also has piles of indictments sitting on the books, many already at the courthouse.

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