Tag: Special Counsel Mueller

Ken Starr Says If President Trump Fires Robert Mueller ‘There Would Be Hell To Pay’

Starr, the independent counsel while President Bill Clinton was in office, weighed in with Bloomberg.

Former U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr, who became a regular character in American politics as the independent counsel during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, said President Donald Trump would be ill-advised to get rid of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Starr made the comments on Friday after Bloomberg’s David Westin asked him what the consequences would be if Trump were to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and get rid of Mueller.

“I think that there would be hell to pay if the president fired Mueller or ordered the firing of Bob Mueller,” Starr said.

View the complete September 15 article by Andy McDonald on the HuffingtonPost.com website here.

Special counsel has thousands of Trump transition emails: report

The following article by Max Greenwood was posted on the Hill website December 16, 2017:

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is shown testifying before a 2013 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing when he was FBI director. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators is in possession of tens of thousands of emails from the Trump transition team, Axios reported Saturday.

Those emails include messages belonging to President Trump‘s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, as well as other members of the transition team’s political leadership and the foreign policy team, according to Axios.

Mueller’s prosecutors reportedly used the emails to question witnesses, and are also looking to the messages to confirm information and follow new leads. Continue reading “Special counsel has thousands of Trump transition emails: report”