Time for Rod Rosenstein to fire special counsel Robert Mueller

Published June 22, 2018 4:52pm ET



It’s time for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to rescind Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel.

In March 2017, following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal, Rosenstein, as acting attorney general, appointed Mueller to oversee the investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. As Mueller’s investigation dragged on, revealed no evidence of collusion, and wandered into completely unrelated areas — such as the indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on multiple counts of bank fraud that allegedly occurred years before he joined the campaign — Republicans began to question Rosenstein’s decision.

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