Trump Is Reality TV, Mueller Is The Wire

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Wait, so you think Trump picked Mueller? So you think that there is no functional check on a president dismissing his investigators?

Man, these movies really have diverged.

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Wait, so you think Trump picked Mueller? So you think that there is no functional check on a president dismissing his investigators?

Trump is the boss of Mueller's boss's boss, and that Mueller was hired the day after Trump interviewed him. Given this and including the nature of the positions, it is extremely likely that Trump wanted Mueller for this position.

Regarding the check, if you're barking up the wrong tree looking for a check then yeah you're not gonna find it. An employee of the chief executive is hardly a check on that executive. There are plenty of other functional checks on the executive. For any check to be functional, it requires evidence of crime in the first place. Which there is not in this case. If there was evidence of crime, the executive branch might be a functional check on the executive even if it's on the personnel's boss.

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Trump is the boss of Mueller's boss's boss, and that Mueller was hired the day after Trump interviewed him. Given this and including the nature of the positions, it is extremely likely that Trump wanted Mueller for this position.

Regarding the check, if you're barking up the wrong tree looking for a check then yeah you're not gonna find it. An employee of the chief executive is hardly a check on that executive. There are plenty of other functional checks on the executive. For any check to be functional, it requires evidence of crime in the first place. Which there is not in this case. If there was evidence of crime, the executive branch might be a functional check on the executive even if it's on the personnel's boss.

See above post.