{"id":34330,"date":"2018-12-20T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34330"},"modified":"2018-12-20T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:49:00","slug":"senate-gop-should-rethink-resistance-to-mueller-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34330","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP should rethink resistance to Mueller protection"},"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\/10\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32984\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated he has faith that Donald Trump won&#8217;t fire special counsel Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>I do believe McConnell has more faith in the president acting rationally than many of his fellow Americans possess.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to the Senate&#8217;s latest refusal to enact legislation would protect Mueller from a foolish presidential act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/422171-mueller-protection-bill-blocked-in-senate-for-third-time\">Mueller is closing in<\/a> on the end of his lengthy investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian operatives who interfered in our election. He&#8217;s also closing in on Trump and his closest aides and associates.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any way to guarantee that the president won&#8217;t do something profoundly foolhardy by, say, firing Mueller? Of course not! It&#8217;s because Trump cannot be pigeonholed, he can&#8217;t be measured by any of the standard methods.<\/p>\n<p>That ought to give Senate Republicans reason enough to enact this legislation that would prevent Trump from doing something stupid. Think of it: If the president does deliver an act of profound stupidity by firing Mueller, he delivers to Congress a tailor-made case for obstruction of justice that, I do believe, is an impeachable offense.<\/p>\n<p>Is the Senate majority leader really ready for that event? He cannot predict it won&#8217;t happen without some legislative protection for Robert Mueller.<\/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>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated he has faith that Donald Trump won&#8217;t fire special counsel Robert Mueller. I do believe McConnell has more faith in the president acting rationally than many of his fellow Americans possess. Which brings me to the Senate&#8217;s latest refusal to enact legislation would protect Mueller from a foolish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34330\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate GOP should rethink resistance to Mueller protection<\/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],"tags":[7131,1424,1941,3099,3983,7093,5051],"class_list":["post-34330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-collusion","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34330","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=34330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34331,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34330\/revisions\/34331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}