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    Why Trump Might Fire Robert Mueller

    President Trump is reportedly considering drastic action to end the Russia investigation.
    by Peter Beinart Jul 25, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

    Why do Donald Trump and his advisors keep floating the possibility of firing Robert Mueller, an act that would spark the greatest constitutional crisis since Watergate, perhaps the greatest in modern American history?

    Partly, it’s simple rage. Mueller threatens Trump. And when Trump sees someone as a threat, he tries to discredit and destroy them—conventional norms of propriety, decency and legality be damned.

    But there’s another, more calculated, reason. Trump and his advisors may genuinely believe that firing Mueller is a smart move. And if you put morality aside, and see the question in nakedly

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