THREAD: Trump Just Forced Out His Attorney General To Obstruct the Mueller Investigation. (1/9) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump…
Trump forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions for one reason: to obstruct the Mueller investigation. (2/9) buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Sessions’s recusal from the Mueller probe was the only sticking point between the two. Trump repeatedly attacked Sessions for the decision, saying he shouldn’t have chosen Sessions and calling it a “betrayal.” (3/9) cnn.com/2018/08/25/pol…
Trump’s made it clear he expected Sessions to protect him from the Mueller probe, at one point asserting that Sessions should take on the same role as his notorious former fixer Roy Cohn. (4/9) nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/…
Matthew Whitaker, who Trump designated as his Acting Attorney General, is a partisan appointee who would do exactly that. We know because he’s repeatedly accused Mueller of going too far. (5/9) cnn.com/2017/08/06/opi…
Whitaker’s even outlined exactly how the president—with help from a compliant acting attorney general—could stifle Mueller’s probe by starving it of funding and resources. (6/9) transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/17…
Given Trump’s desire to have an attorney general who will protect him from the law, Sessions’s replacement must act immediately to make it clear that he will not interfere in Mueller’s investigation. (7/9) americanprogress.org/issues/democra…
He must immediately issue a written order granting Mueller full independence and outlining that Mueller can update Congress and the public as he sees fit—just as acting AG Robert Bork did after Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre. (8/9) americanprogress.org/issues/democra…
Forcing out Jeff Sessions is Trump’s biggest step yet to obstruct the Mueller investigation. It is imperative that the new attorney general commit not to interfere with the Special Counsel’s vital investigation. (9/9) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump…
