Constitutional Crisis?

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Will he fire Mueller or won't he, no one really knows for sure yet. This will create a Constitutional Crisis with a drama that may carry negative reactions. Last year Trump returned to the idea, and in a desperate effort his legal team to stop him.

Trump has wanted to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller but backed off when his White House counsel threatened to resign, according to The New York Times and The Washington Post

Trump Ordered Mueller Fired but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit https://nyti.ms/2FkmrsD

Trump moved to fire special counsel Mueller in June, bringing the White House's top lawyer to the brink of quitting https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/25/trump-moved-…

Report: Trump wanted Mueller fired, backed off https://www.apnews.com/416bf2ca3077423db951e4658c970d01

Trump nearly sparked a constitutional crisis in June. https://newrepublic.com/minutes/146780/trump-nearly-sparked-constitutio…

Dershowitz: I Worry Mueller Will Go After Trump for Obstruction, Creating 'Constitutional Crisis' http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/01/24/alan-dershowitz-constitutional-cr…

Source: Trump ordered special counsel Robert Mueller to be fired last year http://politi.co/2DFM9f5

When Nixon fired the Watergate prosecutor: Slow Burn reaches the Saturday Night Massacre http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/slow_burn/2018/01/the_saturday_n…

Fox News host: White House is doing everything it can to "undercut" Mueller's credibility http://hill.cm/BubbCGt

'McGahn has jumped ship': Internet dissects bombshell reports that WH counsel kept Trump from firing Mueller https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/mcgahn-jumped-ship-internet-dissects-b…

Republican Rep. Chris Stewart on NYT report that Trump called for Mueller to be fired last June, but backed off: "If it’s true, it would be concerning to me, but it would also show that the process worked" http://cnn.it/2GfDE89 #CuomoPrimeTime

"GOP panics as signs point to imminent Mueller blockbuster" http://hill.cm/eXpLWYe

Trump wanted Mueller fired back in June, 'New York Times' report says https://usat.ly/2DQIHgI

Dem: Trump attempting to fire Mueller is "not the behavior of an innocent man" http://hill.cm/lLvxJwC

5 things Trump's attempted firing of Robert Mueller teaches us | Analysis by CNN's Chris Cillizza http://cnn.it/2ncrAM8

Who is Robert Mueller? Here's a profile of the special counsel leading the Trump-Russia probe https://bloom.bg/2rFVfmq