Sen. Susan Collins R-Maine, warned Sunday that President Trump shouldn’t fire the deputy attorney general of the Justice Department in order get to special counsel Robert Mueller.
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In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Collins stressed that the president cannot technically fire Mueller, but the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, can. Rosenstein told Collins he wouldn’t give in to White House pressure to fire Mueller.
Pressed on more reports that Trump has considered firing Rosenstein as well, Collins said that wouldn’t end well for the president.
“If that’s true, that obviously would be a terrible mistake,” she said, pointing to former President Nixon’s infamous firing spree during Watergate.
“The president would be best served by never discussing the investigation, ever,” Collins said.
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Susan Collins: It would be a "terrible mistake" for Trump to fire Rod Rosenstein https://t.co/PJsvMTtlxO pic.twitter.com/ofVXrhCGGS
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 28, 2018
Sen. Collins on reports of President Trump wanting to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: “If that’s true, that obviously…would be a terrible mistake” #CNNSOTU https://t.co/W51WJYK45t
— CNN (@CNN) January 28, 2018
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