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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.

Ken Starr predicts indictments in Russia probe

The following article by Brandon Carter was posted on the Hill website October 7, 2017:

Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals during Bill Clinton’s presidency, predicted Saturday that there would likely be indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election meddling.

“Given what we do know, especially given what happened this summer with respect to the FBI’s intrusion into Paul Manafort’s condominium, in light of the revelations that we’ve seen about General Flynn, I have a sense that there will in fact be indictments,” Starr said on CNN’s “Smerconish,” referring to President Trump’s former campaign chairman and his first national security adviser, respectively. Continue reading “Ken Starr predicts indictments in Russia probe”