Lindsey Graham: ‘Beginning of the End’ if Trump Fires Mueller


Senator Lindsey Graham is trying to limit President Donald Trump’s power — despite the fact that both men are supposedly members of the same political party:

Sen. Lindsey Graham sent a sharp warning Thursday to President Donald Trump that it “could be the beginning of the end” of his presidency if he makes moves to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.

The South Carolina Republican, who in the late 1990s served as a House impeachment manager against President Bill Clinton, said Trump would be crossing a serious “red line” by ordering the ouster of the lead investigator who is probing his campaign’s ties to Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

“Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong,” Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill, where he outlined plans to introduce legislation next week that would move to block any Trump attempts to fire Mueller.

Graham said his bill — which he promised would have Republican support and “all the Democrats” — would mandate that any special counsel established to investigate either a president or his staff can’t be fired “unless you have judicial review of the firing.”

“We need a check and balance here,” Graham said. He is working on the legislation with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who in an MSNBC interview on Monday described the bill as an attempt to “try and make sure that the president can’t just fire a special prosecutor.”

Is Graham trying to limit the president? Or is he trying to save him from himself?

Given the Senator’s harsh rhetoric against the president in recent months, the latter seems more likely. It’s no coincidence that he’s counting on Democrat votes to get the bill passed. They’re his biggest fans lately.

Source: Politico



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