{"id":32029,"date":"2018-08-31T03:10:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T03:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32029"},"modified":"2018-08-31T03:11:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T03:11:43","slug":"trump-mueller-probe-is-illegal-really-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32029","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Mueller probe is &#8216;illegal&#8217; &#8230; really, Mr. POTUS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31449\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who, I have to ask of the president of the United States, comprise the &#8220;great legal minds&#8221; who have concluded that special counsel Robert Mueller is conducting an &#8220;illegal&#8221; investigation into alleged Russian &#8220;collusion&#8221; with the 2016 Trump presidential campaign?<\/p>\n<p>He calls Mueller&#8217;s investigation illegal because those great minds said the Justice Department shouldn&#8217;t have appointed a special counsel in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Please. Spare me the hideous assertion.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller&#8217;s appointment in 2017 by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was hailed universally by lawmakers on both sides of the great &#8212; and widening &#8212; political divide. Trump even said he would cooperate fully with Mueller. Since then he has changed his tune dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>He now calls Mueller&#8217;s probe a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221; He detests Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia investigation, given that Sessions was a key player in the campaign. He had to recuse himself. The AG had no choice.<\/p>\n<p>As for Mueller, his investigation is above board. It is legal. It is appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it needs to conclude under its own power.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who, I have to ask of the president of the United States, comprise the &#8220;great legal minds&#8221; who have concluded that special counsel Robert Mueller is conducting an &#8220;illegal&#8221; investigation into alleged Russian &#8220;collusion&#8221; with the 2016 Trump presidential campaign? He calls Mueller&#8217;s investigation illegal because those great minds said the Justice Department shouldn&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump: Mueller probe is &#8216;illegal&#8217; &#8230; really, Mr. POTUS?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7927],"tags":[74,2434,3983,7093],"class_list":["post-32029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-russian-attack","tag-2016-election","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32031,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32029\/revisions\/32031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}