Trump lawyer refuses to rule out firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller, arguing he's a 'unitary executive'

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• President Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow wouldn't pledge the president to keeping around Special Counsel Robert Mueller
• Sekulow, part of Trump's legal team outside the White House, sat down Sunday with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos
• The attorney argued that Trump is a 'unitary executive,' suggesting it would be in his power to remove Mueller, who's now in charge of the Russia probe

 

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A member of President Trump's legal team, attorney Jay Sekulow, wouldn't commit the president to keeping around Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is now handling the Russia probe.
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos had Sekulow on This Week Sunday morning and asked him if the president would promise not to order his Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller.
'Look, the president of the United States, as we all know, is a unitary executive,' Sekulow said instead of answering the question definitively.

 

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Lawyer Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump's legal team, wouldn't commit the president to a pledge to not fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller

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Trump attorney Jay Sekulow (left) hinted to George Stephanopoulos (right) that he found some of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's behavior troublesome

He added, 'I'm not going to speculate on what he will or will not do.'
Earlier in the program, Sekulow hinted that he found some of Mueller's actions to be troublesome, suggesting that Mueller was somehow in cahoots with former FBI Director James Comey.
Mueller was Comey's predecessor leading the FBI.
The special counsel, Sekulow pointed out, had allowed Comey to testify Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
'James Comey said he reviewed the testimony with the special counsel and you wonder if, it's unusual to me – and I've done a lot of cases for 40 years of practicing law almost, and at the highest levels of the Supreme Court – that you have a situation, I think this is unprecedented, where the testimony was reviewed,' Sekulow stated.
Turning his ire to Comey, Sekulow continued, 'and then it was – part of that testimony, a large part, was based on leaked information.'
During Thursday's Capitol Hill hearing, Comey confessed that he had handed his memos on meetings with President Trump over to a friend at Columbia University to then be passed along to the New York Times.

 

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Trump's team has used this admission to try and color Comey and suggest he's an unreliable witness, even though he testified under oath.
'I mean, I want everyone to be thinking about this,' Trump's lawyer said on Stephanopoulos' program. 'So this was an unprecedented move,' he said of Comey's decision to leak the memos into the press.
Sekulow's questioning of coziness between Comey and Mueller prompted Stephanopoulos to ask if the president and his legal team 'don't have confidence in Robert Mueller to conduct a fair investigation?'
Sekulow pivoted.
'No, what we're saying is look, I mean Marc Kasowitz is the lead lawyer in this case and is in charge of the legal team, has said clearly that he is putting forward a legal team and a legal defense that will address all of the issues.
'But I think that the unusual situation here, this is unprecedented in our history, is that the former executive – the former FBI director was the source of a leak,' Sekulow continued.
'I mean, George, you know, we've all been concerned about leaks and here he was the source of that leak,' he added.
President Trump accused Comey of lying, though his lawyer said it would be up to Special Counsel Mueller to pursue perjury charges.
'I think that James Comey's credibility has been brought into question on multiple occasions during the Clinton investigation and here,' Sekulow said, reminding viewers that Comey has had to go back and change his testimony in the past.
Stephanopoulos pointed out that Trump could stop the he-said, he-said, by simply releasing the tapes.
Trump tweeted about the existence of recordings of his conversations with Comey, but the White House hasn't given a real answer on whether or not they exist.
'The president said he is going to address the issue of the tapes, whether the tapes exist or not, next week,' the attorney explained Sunday. 'That's a decision that the president will make in consultation with his chief lawyer Marc Kasowitz, and that the president said he'll address it next week.'
Stephanopoulos also wanted to know if Trump would testify under oath to Mueller.
'Well, the president made that very clear. He has made the statement of what he would do as far as testimony if that's necessary,' Sekulow said.

 

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'I find it ironic that people are questioning the president when he said he would do that, yet Secretary Clinton, when she was under investigation by James Comey, was not put under oath,' he said. 'I find that ironic.'
Finally, they got to the topic of Mueller's longevity in his post.
Axios is reporting that Mueller hired Michael Dreeben, called the 'best criminal appellate lawyer in America,' to work on a part-time basis for his team.
Dreeban's hire, along with that of Andrew Weissmann, who headed the Department of Justice's Enron Task Force, show that Mueller is taking the task at hand seriously, and is 'amassing the talent arsenal you'd build to bring criminal charges,' Axios said.
As to whether Trump could ever fire Mueller, that would be an issue the president would discuss with his advisers, Sekulow said.
'But I can't imagine that that issue is going to arise,' the attorney added.
'I mean, George, if there was a basis upon which there was a question raised that raised the kind of issues that are serious, as in the situation with James Comey, the president has the authority to take action,' Sekulow continued.
'Whether he would do it is ultimately a decision the president makes,' the lawyer added.


Read more:

• Mueller adds muscle for Russia investigation - Axios

 

[SheriffJoe]

teeheehee...

Master anti-Alynsky'ite Donald Trump distracting the libs with their own self-inflicted BS ("RUSSIA!" "RUSSIA!" "RUSSIA!")!

 

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I just want them to come out with an Official release there was no collusion to just shut these left wing nuts up.

 

[919]

Why would he want to end the special prosecutor's investigation into his innocence? I'm sure that he has nothing to hide (witch hunt).

 

[SheriffJoe]

Why would he want to end the special prosecutor's investigation into his innocence? I'm sure that he has nothing to hide (witch hunt).

Because he's a good friend of Comey.

I'd have fired Mueller already.

 

[919]

Because he's a good friend of Comey.

I'd have fired Mueller already.

Doesn't Rosenstein actually have to fire him?

 

[919]

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[SheriffJoe]

Doesn't Rosenstein actually have to fire him?

Sessions can fire all of them.

Hopefully after Sessions testifies in PUBLIC, this is exactly what will happen. He'll unrecuse himself from 'Russia' and come out guns blazing. Where has all this accommodation and cooperation gotten Team Trump?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

So Gingrich isn't permitted to reevaluate his stance based on current events?
Everyone thought Comey was the greatest thing since sliced bread until he got moldy.

I thought from the beginning appointing a special prosecutor was a waste of tax
payer money. Now after Comey's testimony I know it was. There simply was no there there.

 

[919]

So Gingrich isn't permitted to reevaluate his stance based on current events?
Everyone thought Comey was the greatest thing since sliced bread until he got moldy.

I thought from the beginning appointing a special prosecutor was a waste of tax
payer money. Now after Comey's testimony I know it was. There simply was no there there.

"reevaluated his stance"ointer:

 

[Willie99]

So Gingrich isn't permitted to reevaluate his stance based on current events?
Everyone thought Comey was the greatest thing since sliced bread until he got moldy.

I thought from the beginning appointing a special prosecutor was a waste of tax
payer money. Now after Comey's testimony I know it was. There simply was no there there.

of course he can, but nuances of the law and the argument flies right over their heads

they have no idea how to look at a legal argument, they have no idea why opinions might change, they only know what they've been spoon fed by some left wing hate source, more simpleton bullshit from the left

you see, Newt told the world why he changed his mind, he did so on a National Sunday morning news show and it's very easy to learn the truth if you want to

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Newt Gingrich: Comey Testimony "Tainted" Special Investigator Mueller; "Setting Up To Go After Trump"
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date June 11, 2017

CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, author of the upcoming book "​

Understanding Trump

," out this Tuesday. ​

That must be a long book.

NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: Yes. It's interesting.

WALLACE: I'm sure it is.

Speaker Gingrich, I want to speak to you about something else, though, and I want to start with the - your tweet that I discussed earlier with Republican Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. Here it is up on the screen again. "Republicans need to focus on closing down independent counsel because it clearly isn't independent."

What's your reasoning and wouldn't that really look like an obstruction of justice?

GINGRICH: Well, first of all, look at what Comey said. Comey said, I deliberately leaked, through an intermediary, to create this counsel, who happens to be one of his closest friends. Then look at who Mueller's starting to hire. I mean these are people that, frankly, look - look to me like they're - they're setting up to go after Trump. They've - including people, by the way, who have been reprimanded for hiding from the defense information into major cases.

I think this - this is going to be a witch hunt. I think that Comey himself, by his own testimony, tainted this particular process. You have a director of the FBI deliberately leaking in order to create a special counsel, who we're now supposed to believe is going to be this neutral figure. I think that's just nonsense.


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[Willie99]

Who the Special Prosecutor is starting to hire is valuable insight to a Washington insider, something neither 919 nor the sources he cites will ever comprehend

I'm still giving Mueller the benefit of a doubt, but I'm smart enough to subordinate my judgement to Newt's on these matters and I'm certainly defending Newt's right to change his mind

 

[Dave007inVegas]

"reevaluated his stance"ointer:

Read this and if you still think the Russia story
is important then you have no conscience.

https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2017/06/11/corruption-and-collusion-obama-comey-and-the-press/

 

[Dave007inVegas]

of course he can, but nuances of the law and the argument flies right over their heads

they have no idea how to look at a legal argument, they have no idea why opinions might change, they only know what they've been spoon fed by some left wing hate source, more simpleton bullshit from the left

you see, Newt told the world why he changed his mind, he did so on a National Sunday morning news show and it's very easy to learn the truth if you want to

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Back to Videos
Newt Gingrich: Comey Testimony "Tainted" Special Investigator Mueller; "Setting Up To Go After Trump"
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date June 11, 2017

CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, author of the upcoming book "​

Understanding Trump

," out this Tuesday. ​

That must be a long book.

NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: Yes. It's interesting.

WALLACE: I'm sure it is.

Speaker Gingrich, I want to speak to you about something else, though, and I want to start with the - your tweet that I discussed earlier with Republican Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. Here it is up on the screen again. "Republicans need to focus on closing down independent counsel because it clearly isn't independent."

What's your reasoning and wouldn't that really look like an obstruction of justice?

GINGRICH: Well, first of all, look at what Comey said. Comey said, I deliberately leaked, through an intermediary, to create this counsel, who happens to be one of his closest friends. Then look at who Mueller's starting to hire. I mean these are people that, frankly, look - look to me like they're - they're setting up to go after Trump. They've - including people, by the way, who have been reprimanded for hiding from the defense information into major cases.

I think this - this is going to be a witch hunt. I think that Comey himself, by his own testimony, tainted this particular process. You have a director of the FBI deliberately leaking in order to create a special counsel, who we're now supposed to believe is going to be this neutral figure. I think that's just nonsense.


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I'm beginning to question this Rosenstein character. WTF was he thinking
by appointing Mueller. I mean he had to know Mueller and Comey are butt buddies.
I know Mueller has a unblemished reputation but so did Comey.

 

[Willie99]

Rosenstein did write a memo making a point by point case as to why Comey had to be fired, so I have confidence in him with this matter

Especially since the fucking idiots are now trying to argue "obstruction of justice" after their Russian connections idiocy unraveled

 

[919]

of course he can, but nuances of the law and the argument flies right over their heads

they have no idea how to look at a legal argument, they have no idea why opinions might change, they only know what they've been spoon fed by some left wing hate source, more simpleton bullshit from the left

you see, Newt told the world why he changed his mind, he did so on a National Sunday morning news show and it's very easy to learn the truth if you want to

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Back to Videos
Newt Gingrich: Comey Testimony "Tainted" Special Investigator Mueller; "Setting Up To Go After Trump"
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date June 11, 2017

CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, author of the upcoming book "​

Understanding Trump

," out this Tuesday. ​

That must be a long book.

NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: Yes. It's interesting.

WALLACE: I'm sure it is.

Speaker Gingrich, I want to speak to you about something else, though, and I want to start with the - your tweet that I discussed earlier with Republican Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. Here it is up on the screen again. "Republicans need to focus on closing down independent counsel because it clearly isn't independent."

What's your reasoning and wouldn't that really look like an obstruction of justice?

GINGRICH: Well, first of all, look at what Comey said. Comey said, I deliberately leaked, through an intermediary, to create this counsel, who happens to be one of his closest friends. Then look at who Mueller's starting to hire. I mean these are people that, frankly, look - look to me like they're - they're setting up to go after Trump. They've - including people, by the way, who have been reprimanded for hiding from the defense information into major cases.

I think this - this is going to be a witch hunt. I think that Comey himself, by his own testimony, tainted this particular process. You have a director of the FBI deliberately leaking in order to create a special counsel, who we're now supposed to believe is going to be this neutral figure. I think that's just nonsense.


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hahaha...look at the people he's hiring? This is self preservation pure and simple from the GOP trying to set the stage for Mueller's firing. They are trying to impugn Mueller now since Comey is gone. Same shit different guy.