“Whoever leaked [news of the obstruction investigation] was obviously reading that he was thinking about giving Mueller the boot,” an official told the Daily Beast. That official argued Trump “shot himself in the foot again with this cockamamie scheme to get Mueller to play ball.”
Another White House official told the Daily Beast it would “suicide” for Trump to get rid of the special counsel.
“I’d be insincere if I said it wasn’t a concern that the president would try to do it anyway,” the aide added.
Former United States attorney Barbara McQuade, who served under the Barack Obama administration, told the Daily Beast if Trump fired Mueller “and it could be shown that his purpose was to impede the investigation, it could be additional evidence of obstruction of justice.”
“We could then have a repeat of the Saturday Night Massacre or the Sally Yates Massacre,” she said.
Administration officials are reportedly trying to contain the fallout from the Washington Post’s report that the investigation has expanded to include possible obstruction of justice.
“Keep him away from Twitter, dear God, keep him away from Twitter,” one official told the Daily Beast.
“The president did this to himself,” that official added.
- White House aides think Trump ‘shot himself in the foot’ by firing Comey and triggering a special counsel, RawStory.com, June 14, 2017.
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