Allies of President Donald Trump are orchestrating a
relentless stream of attacks on the credibility and integrity of Special
Prosecutor Robert Mueller and his probe of Russian meddling in the 2016
election. The president insists he’s not going to fire special counsel Robert
Mueller, reports Politico. In the last week, Mueller’s investigators have been
accused of bias against Trump and of violating criminal procedure to get
documents related to his transition.
The purpose of the onslaught, say people close to the White
House, is to sow public doubt about Mueller and his prosecutors in advance of
criminal trials and to give the president political cover if he wants to start
issuing pardons to any current or former aides swept up in the Russia
scandal, Politico reports.
“It is definitely a smarter strategy than outright firing of
Mueller, because that is likely to create a firestorm,” said Elizabeth de la
Vega, a federal prosecutor in San Francisco. “It is also entirely consistent
with Trump’s modus operandi because he is surprisingly non-confrontational,
preferring to be manipulative and, frankly, sneaky.”
The latest complaints against Mueller are a sharp escalation
from earlier this year, when Trump and his allies questioned Mueller’s hiring
of prosecutors who had predominantly donated to Democrats, including
President Obama and Hillary Clinton. While Trump told reporters Sunday that he
wasn’t considering firing Mueller, he said about the special counsel’s methods
for obtaining his transition team’s emails, “It’s not looking good. It’s
quite sad to see that. My people are very upset about it. I can’t imagine
there’s anything on them, frankly, because as we said, there’s no collusion.”
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