By Eddie Howell
Will President Trump fire Special
Counsel Robert Mueller? Can he? There are plenty of opinions being
currently published addressing these questions. What would be the
results of firing Mueller? Or the results of not firing him?
My own thoughts on this begin with the
fact, as I believe it is a fact, that the Mueller investigation is a
sham, a charade, and a witch hunt designed to destroy Donald Trump.
It is an investigation in search of a crime. It is entirely unfair to
the president and harmful to America. It is a drain on American
taxpayers' money and resources which should be used to go after
actual criminals.
Liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz
has interesting comments on the problems of special counsel
investigations and prosecutors going too far in looking for a crime
in violation of the rights of people they are investigating. (YouTube
video dated 07/22/2017)
Peter Beinart at The Atlantic thinks that the Trump team may regard firing Mueller as a good move,
and I think that's probably correct. An article by Doyle McManus in
The Los Angeles Times
says, as do others, that if Trump moved to fire Mueller, it would
bring on a constitutional crisis. A New York Times article headline says “Trump Can't Just Fire
Mueller,”
It's in the interest of the
Anti-Trump Witch Hunt to say that Trump can't fire Mueller and that
if he did (or tried), it would bring on dire consequences. The Swamp
seems to think the Trump presidency could not survive an attempt to
fire Mueller, and hopes that if he doesn't fire the special counsel,
Mueller will dig up enough dirt, real or imagined, to force Trump out
and destroy his life as much as possible.
So, as Trump understands,
regarding the Mueller investigation, he (Trump) is between a
rock and a hard place. Should he suffer the consequences of removing
Mueller now, or wait until Mueller announces his findings, which,
whatever the facts may be, will be designed to damage Trump as much
as possible. Trump, in making a decision to fire or not to fire,
must choose between those two alternatives. Or so it seems to me.
I do not accept the
statement that Trump cannot legally fire Mueller. His army of lawyers
can figure out how to manipulate and exploit the regulations to
accomplish Mueller's firing legally and effectively. The president
has authority concerning regulations and their enforcement. He is
head of the Executive Branch of government. Mueller is under the
authority of the Executive Branch. The legal niceties can certainly
be dealt with and the firing accomplished if the president decides to
do it. What Mr. Trump must be concerned about is which choice is the
better in terms of risk of damage to himself and America. Most of his
voters still support him strongly. GOP members of Congress may speak
against firing Mueller, but most Republican voters would support it,
understanding that Mueller's role is simply part of the Swamp's
hysterical hate campaign to destroy Trump, facts or no facts.
A Politico
article by Matthew Nussbaum lists ways Trump could fire Mueller. It
is not true that Trump can't fire Mueller. The article also suggests
that if he did, Congress could bring back an independent counsel
statute and bring back Mueller to continue, beyond Trump's grasp.
Congress would have to have
a veto-proof majority for that to happen.
Another idea for Trump, if
he wants to fire Mueller, might be to get Attorney General Jeff
Sessions to un-recuse himself and fire Mueller. Then shut down the
FBI Russia investigation.
The globalists and
establishment denizens of the Swamp are determined to get rid of
Trump, and they very well may yet do it whether Trump fires Mueller
or not. But they may also be making a very big mistake if they think
they can defeat Trump easily.
I would like see Mueller
shown the exit. I think Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should be fired as well. I hope he
won't fire Sessions. But the only one who can or should make a final
decision about firing Mueller is President Trump. It's not a question
of whether he can do it, but, for the sake of his presidency and
America, whether he should.