Now Donald Trump is trying to illegally fire someone else
Donald Trump has learned nothing from the mistakes that took down Richard Nixon, and now we know that Trump hasn’t learned anything from the mistakes he got called out on yesteday, either. Just twenty-four hours after Trump’s odds of avoiding prison took a nosedive with the news that he had tried (and failed) to illegally fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, now Trump is reacting to the fallout by trying (and apparently once again failing) to illegally fire someone else too.
Trump just told his advisers to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to reports from CNN, MSNBC and other sources. His advisers have apparently talked him out of the move. Because Rosenstein has control of Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation, firing Rosenstein would also be an illegal act of obstruction of justice. In other words, Trump is still trying to run from his mounting list of crimes by trying to commit even more crimes.
Moreover, Trump is acting as tepidly and indecisively as ever, as his staff keeps talking him out of the illegal orders he’s giving. Instead his advisers keep ratting him out, by telling Mueller that Trump was trying to fire him, and by telling the media that Trump is trying to fire Rosenstein. This also further demonstrates that Trump’s actions are growing more erratic by the day, as he can’t even decide which coverup crime he wants to commit next.
If Donald Trump does fire Rod Rosenstein, control of the Trump-Russia investigation would fall to the next in line at the Department of Justice, Rachel Brand. She’s a conservative, but she seemed to earn the respect of President Obama, suggesting that she may also be unwilling to play games with the probe on Trump’s behalf. If so, Trump would be firing Rosenstein for nothing – and staking himself to yet another count of obstruction of justice.
