Trump lawyer refuses to rule out firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller

Attorney Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump's legal team, on Sunday refused to rule out the possibility of the president attempting to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the probe into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

"Will the president promise not to interfere, not attempt at any time to order the deputy attorney general to fire Robert Mueller?" asked ABC host George Stephanopoulos. "Look, the president of the United States, as we all know, is a unitary executive," Sekulow replied. "But the president is going to seek the advice of his counsel and inside the government as well as outside. And I'm not going to speculate on what he will or will not do."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.