As Trump threatens to fire Mueller,a journalist who was reporting during Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre reads the warning signsEver since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, the golden rule for presidents under investigation by a special prosecutor or special counsel has been that the president shall not fire the person conducting the investigation. For there – as medieval maps sometimes warned travelers – “be dragons”.
Donald Trump has been lectured repeatedly on this score by various advisers and pundits. Yet word keeps leaking out of the White House that Trump would like nothing more than to fire Robert Mueller. So far, or Trump has heeded the warnings. But how much longer,one wonders, can a man who famously bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and score away with it be expected to resist temptation to dismiss the special counsel?Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk