Trump allies target Mueller team, one by one
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Trump allies target Mueller team, one by one
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/trump-allies-target-mueller-team-116168
The president's defenders are using him to remove anyone and everyone involved in the Russia probe.
Robert Mueller
Roughly a half-dozen prosecutors and officials who worked in special counsel Robert Mueller’s office and are still employed by the Justice Department. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
By DANIEL LIPPMAN and NATASHA BERTRAND 02/20/2020 05:13 AM EST
For months, a loose network of pro-Trump commentators and outside agitators has been urging the president to purge his administration of anyone and everyone involved in the Russia probe.
They’ve celebrated as many of the FBI and Justice Department officials involved in the investigation have left government. And now, with an angry and newly liberated President Donald Trump seeking retribution in the wake of his impeachment acquittal, they’re pressing him to finish the job.
“Why would they expect not to be fired?” said Kurt Schlicter, a conservative political commentator and Trump supporter, referring to the roughly half-dozen prosecutors and officials who worked in special counsel Robert Mueller’s office and are still employed by the Justice Department.
Trump’s allies have long called for a “cleaning out” of DOJ and FBI, aimed at career officials perceived as hostile to the president. Several of Trump’s top targets have been forced out, including former FBI Director James Comey, his former deputy Andrew McCabe, and former FBI agent Peter Strzok, all of whom worked on the Russia probe.
But the calls for a purge intensified this month after four career prosecutors recommended a sentence of at least 7 years in prison for Trump associate Roger Stone, who was convicted last year of making false statements to Congress, obstruction and witness intimidation.
All four of the Stone prosecutors quit the case after their sentencing recommendation, which followed federal guidelines, was overruled by Attorney General Bill Barr, and one resigned from DOJ altogether...........................................
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