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The Hill
Alexander Bolton and Melanie Zanona
4/10/2018
Excerpt:
President Trump’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.
Republicans unnerved by the president’s anger in public and private sought to talk him down, fearing a “Saturday night massacre”-style series of firings harking back to the Nixon era was growing more likely.
GOP lawmakers fear presidential firings of Mueller, Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would cause chaos in Washington and dim Republican hopes of holding their congressional majorities.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) declared in a CNN interview Tuesday that “it would be suicide for the president to fire him.”
“I have made my views public, and I hope he’s listening to those of us who say it would be a mistake,” said Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas).
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White House Says Trump Has Power to Fire Mueller
Experts outside the administration have said the president can’t directly dismiss the special counsel
The Wall Street Journal
by Rebecca Ballhaus, Del Quentin Wilber and Kristina Peterson
Updated 4/10/2018
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-says-trump-has-power-to-fire-mueller-1523406965
Report: Anti-Trump GOP House Members ‘Happy to Take Out President’ Over Mueller, Looming Loss of Congress
Gateway Pundit
by Kristinn Taylor
4/11/2018
Trump mulling firing Rosenstein: report
The Hill
by Julia Manchester
4/10/2018
Stormy Weather for Campaign-Finance Laws
Hush money looks like a personal expense. Treating it as a political one would create a bad precedent.
The Wall Street Journal
by Bradley A. Smith
4/10/2018
Excerpt:
When you stretch the law to “get” a political opponent, it’s rarely possible to return the law to its original shape. Which brings us to Stormy Daniels.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/stormy-weather-for-campaign-finance-laws-1523398987
See also post: Former Federal Election Commission chairman debunks pretext used for raid on Trump lawyer — Lucas Daniel Smith’s Blog, 4/11/2018″