While many on the left are hoping to see President Trump kicked out of office prior to the 2020 election, Donald Trump himself apparently has other ideas.
"The president's response was as it related to the Washington Post report". He also cited the testimony from former FBI Director James Comey before the Senate intelligence committee, in which Comey said he had told Trump he was not under investigation in the months leading up to his May 9 firing. "Many new jobs, high business enthusiasm, massive regulation cuts, 36 new legislative bills signed, great new S.C. Justice, and Infrastructure, Healthcare and Tax Cuts in works!" he wrote.
It's too early to say for sure what legal strategy his lawyers will eventually settle on.
Attorney Jay Sekulow is stressing that "the president has not been and is not under investigation".
"The president is not and has not been under investigation for obstruction".
"You don't mess with the criminal justice system in this way ... the President is on very tenuous ground here", Ben-Veniste told CNN's Don Lemon Friday.
However, Mr. Comey did say he took the President's "hope" comment as a "directive".
If the Post story turns out to be real news, what we will have is an investigation of an impossible crime being conducted by a special counsel who is burdened by severe conflicts and supervised by another conflicted official. "Now in this environment with a Justice Department where 97 percent of the donations previous year went to Hillary - 97 percent - explain to me why I should relax as a Republican".
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said on Fox News Sunday that it would be a "disaster" for Trump to fire Mueller or Rosenstein, or to nudge the latter to recuse himself in an effort to slow down the investigation.
Mueller is leading the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation, while the House Intelligence Committee and several other panels are conducting their own probes into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
"He takes the action that they also, by the way, recommended. So that's the constitutional threshold question here", Sekulow said. Although the White House initially claimed that Comey's firing was the result of his mishandling of Hillary Clinton's email investigation, Trump himself later said he was thinking about the Russian Federation investigation when he fired Comey.
"The president has confidence of everyone who serves for him in this administration", said Spicer.
While aides have advised Trump to stay off Twitter, the president continued to weigh in Sunday as he spent the weekend at Camp David, the government-owned presidential retreat in Maryland.
At the president's urging, he has been on the offensive, casting doubt on Comey's character and raising questions about whether the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director inappropriately disclosed sensitive material.
But so far, Sekulow's short tenure as Trump's personal defender on TV hasn't been so smooth.
The White House recently bolstered the legal team's credentials by hiring former prosecutor John Dowd, who may be best known for investigating allegations of improper gambling by baseball player Pete Rose. John McCain in the 1991 "Keating Five" scandal for which McCain was ultimately exonerated after being accused of improperly meeting with bank regulators on behalf of a campaign donor.
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