Mitch McConnell To Block Bill To Protect Robert Mueller [View all]
Surprising no one.
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Posted on Fri, Nov 9th, 2018 by Jason Easley
Mitch McConnell To Block Bill To Protect Robert Mueller
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is going to block a bill to protect Robert Mueller by not allowing it to come up for a vote.
McConnell said of the bill to protect Mueller, Its not necessary. The Mueller investigation is not under threat. The presidents said repeatedly hes not going to dismiss the Mueller investigation. Hes said repeatedly its going to be allowed to finish. That also happens to be my view. As you can imagine, we speak frequently, and theres never been any indication that he wants to dismiss Mueller or the investigation. Its going to be allowed to finish.
Trump just installed a man to be his attorney general who claims that there is no evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Trump also has tried to fire the Special Counsel on numerous previous occasions, so there is definitely a looming to the Robert Muellers Russia investigation.
Mitch McConnell already knows that Trump isnt going to try to fire Mueller, but that the endgame is to put Whitaker in place to smother the investigation so that it grinds to a halt.
The best course of action to get legislation to protect Mueller though Congress appears to be the path that House Democrats are considering, and that is to block the government funding bill that has to be passed by December 7 unless it contains legislation to protect the Special Counsel investigation.
Mitch McConnell has already shown over and over again that he places country last, so if members of Congress are going to save the investigation, they are going to have to overcome the Senate Majority Leader.