Trump's Lawyer: It's Time to Fire Robert Mueller

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61. What actually happens with the investigation if Mueller IS fired?

I haven't heard much about that, and you'd think you would given the distinct possibility.

Does the whole investigation go into the trash bin along with Mueller?
Is it simply handed off to the second in charge and go on?
What happens to all the reams of evidence? Is there assurance that it can be sealed away until Democrats have enough of a majority to force it opened up again?

Or is this a delay tactic in that once Mueller is fired, they know there will be pressure to complete at least some kind of investigation in the months to follow. So if plan A, where they can ride it out doesn't work, then they go to plan B where they will reopen it but hire someone in the Nunes vein of sycophants who will craft the final verdict in much the same way Nunes did with the House investigation. All the while ticking time away with how long that would take to set up, restart, and work itself out. And then if that is rightfully discredited after wasting another year, it would take even more time to organize another investigation. And all the while, Trumpublicans and Fox News will be milking the persecution angle ("How many of these witch hunts does our poor President have to go through?). And of course, during all this time the GOP can pass however many draconian laws they want to cowering in the orange traitors' shade.

Because I think the latter is probably what McConnell and Ryan are preparing themselves for. They see some reckoning coming perhaps, in some distant future, but they just want to stay afloat and robbing the treasury as long as they can.