Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he hasn’t seen any indication from President Trump that he wants to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
In an interview Sunday on CNN, Mnuchin said the investigation into Russia’s 2016 interference should conclude but he declined to say whether that meant firing the special counsel.
“I haven’t heard anything about this, any firing,” he said. He added, “I don’t have any reason to think that the president is going to do that, but that’s obviously up to him.”
The White House has maintained that Trump is not, at least as of now, interested in firing Mueller, even though Trump has repeatedly referred to the investigation as a “witch hunt.”
Reports surfaced Saturday that a lawyer for Trump’s campaign is accusing Mueller of violating the Fourth Amendment rights of people who worked for the transition whose emails have been obtained by the special counsel’s office. Mueller’s team has reportedly received tens of thousands of emails from the transition team.
