Chuck Ross on March 19, 2018
California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu predicted Monday there will be “widespread civil unrest” if President Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller.
“If the president does go ahead and fire Robert Mueller, we would have people take to the streets,” Lieu told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “I believe there would be widespread civil unrest because Americans believe the rule of law is paramount.”
“You think there would be widespread civil unrest?” Hayes asked.
“I do. I think you’re going have protests and marches and rallies and sit-ins. I believe Americans would not stand for the firing of Robert Mueller,” Lieu replied.
Trump’s tweets last week have fueled speculation he plans to get rid of Mueller, who was appointed May 2017 to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump called the Mueller probe a “witch hunt,” which “should never have been started.”
The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2018
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Trump lawyer John Dowd believes the Mueller investigation should come to an end, he said over St. Patrick’s Day weekend, which added fuel to the fire.
White House special counsel Ty Cobb issued a statement on Sunday, denying Trump plans to fire Mueller.
Trump would either have to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions or fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in order to shut down the Mueller investigation
Rosenstein serves as acting attorney general for the Russia investigation because Sessions recused himself from the matter due to his involvement with the Trump campaign. Sessions’ and/or Rosenstein’s replacements could shut down the Mueller investigation if the two were forced out of their positions.
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Aint scared of any twinkled toed liberal.
If the president does fire Robert Mueller, we would have people take to the streets,” Lieu told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “I believe there would be widespread civil unrest because Americans believe the rule of law is paramount.” So Lieu is admitting that he and the democratic party will call for rioting in the streets? sounds like to me that if there is a single FBI agent that is not corrupt left in that organization they should be knocking on Leius door and placing him under arrest for attempts to encite riots and terrorist threats! I am nt sure there is an FBI agent left that is capable of doing their job with out bias or political motivation though. my faith in the FBI, CIA homeland security and justice department is about zero there are still far to many obama deep state clowns left in those departments for them to actually function how they are supposed to function!
Another sore loser that cannot face the facts that dusty ovaries lost and that the democratic party were blown out of the water (in Nov 8th 2016) via Trump and company. LOL! and another LOL!!!
If a second Special Counsel is set up to investigate the corruption the first one exposed, Trump wouldn’t need to fire Mueller. Obama seems to think he’s still President, running the Deep State and trying to divide the country still, so having two Special Counsels isn’t that surprising an outcome for this phony deal rigged against Trump and covering for Obama’s heir apparent, who “couldn’t lose the election.”
With what I just read, I believe that if it happens they will be met with a resistance by the sane people of this country against these commies like you haven’t seen before. Bring the body bags!
Ever notice how the Left always proclaims riots, protests, marches, and violence. It’s never discussions, debates, education, facts, and negotiations. They are the violent part of our society. 25% of the voting population registers as Democrat. They are the self absorbed, wealthy, dissident, and easily lead. We on the Right may be considered as Deplorable by them, but we are what keep this country from descending into the depths of Detroit, Chicago, and California. They give us Obama, Hillary and all other Unamerican Anti-Constitutional globalist destructionists. Unfortunately, we on the Conservative side, have sat in comfortable ignorance for too long now. We need to get to the polls and Vote because the Democrats have registered an extra 30% more voters in their precincts than they have residents, and they are illegals, dead, or Multi-vote voters that are turning the outcome of our elections over. We need to re-do what we did for Trump. Reaffirm our stand and rid DC of the corruption they have imposed. Clean our schools, our FBI, CIA, etc., all agencies, the Judiciary and governmental bodies of the Liberals that give their Oath of Office and then break it.
We wouldn’t have a special investigation had republican Congressmen not joined with Democrats and called for one. So IMO, they will have to back Trump and say enough is enough, for such a thing to happen.
Well, Mr. Lieu, there will be widespread civil unrest in the future, if you and your left wing liberals keep pushing. We will be entangled in another civil war, and I promise you, it will make the last one look like a walk in the park. I think Trump should declare martial law and send the military across the country to clean out the lunatics who support illegal immigration and oppose federal law.
If the Democrats want a civil war, I will be more than happy to give it to them. They are forever lying about Trump firing Mueller, and I’m getting sick and tired of it. If a civil war starts, guess who my first, primary targets are going to be?
Maybe the next time around you clowns won’t have it so easy ,as in MO!!?/ Law breaking is just that !!!People are fed up with it and you left siders ,arn’t the ruling class,to say the least! iI say bring it on, Lets see where the mop flops !!? If you think for one moment the people will back this joke,Well,Lets see!!
of course, that bastard is referring to the West Coast Sewer………Cailfornia
whoops…….. CALIFORNIA
This vermin is a joke.
The only people talking about Trump firing Mueller is the left. They want him to fire Mueller so bad but he won’t. I am certain that there would be civil unrest if the left thought he was going to fire him What else could you expect from group of community organizers. That’s what they know.
Why is it that the only folks that think that Trump will fire Mueller is the media. The media is the only people that talk about it besides the left..
Democrats can riot all they want no one is going to believe it is for good cause we will hold reps like Lieu responsible for inciting rebellion just like the other pigs belly that made statements inciting armed rebellion, and they are the party of gun control? Or actually threaten harm to the President of the USA.
And if they are illegals who have been living in sanctuary cities they should be placed in prison work camps until they pay for damages and then sent to the Middle East.
That may sound over the top until you realize Mueller was Obama’s point man to dub radical Islam and acts of terrorism unmentionable a fact we may be experiencing in MD after a school shooting there.
While everyone argues 2nd amendment issues the bigger problem that the DNC has brought upon us has not been discussed. The ADL attempted to make Cruz out to be some sort of white supremacist a total lie. And in this case we really don;t have any information at all except that our children stuck in gun free zones are extremely vulnerable to gun violence. What doesn’t make the news is the Radical Islamist attempts to incite children to commit murder, and they are successful in the USA. One 17 year old last week knifed 3 children at a birthday party one 13 year old died. He did it for Islam. One 19 year old set fire to several buildings at a Catholic school near St Paul trying to incinerate 33 toddlers and 7 adults, that failed. She did it for Islam. That the dynamic of these instigation by radical Islam to encourage children to kill other children is grossly understated. Thanks Obama, Holder Jenn Johnson and Mueller.
We may never get an honest accounting of Islams influence on Cruz if there is one or the shooting in Las Vegas, and the one in Maryland? Because reporting acts of Islamist terrorism was made Islamophobia by the Obama administration and the Holder DOJ punished employees that put radical and Islam in the same sentence let alone imply that it was a factor in murders over 100 attributable to the Islamic State including the Orlando and Fort Lauderdale shootings. Instead the instance of our gun free zones being the most unsafe places to be has been turned into blaming inanimate objects if only because the fBI was been trained to ignore motive and politicians like former Mayor Bloomberg of NYC attempted to focus all gun incidents and other terrorist attacks on white militias, for example the Times Square bomber nearly allowing that terrorist to escape.
I have been following reports on the shooting in MD so far only one paper mentioned the shooter was black dressed n black like an Islamic State terrorist.
SO What’s new, they riot when he is elected, they riot when he makes a speech, they riot when he eats a hamburger, they riot when they need more money from Soros. Go on with your bad selves, no one is interested in your little playacting, it really looks good on you.
Well Civil unrest is due so why not start now and get rid of the Globalists.
Are you kidding me here? This so called investigation has been going on for a year and a half now. Millions of taxpayer’s dollars wasted and for what? Nothing was found, big fat 0, so why continue on with this. Look, I realize that it’s the dream of every leftist/democrat in this country to hang Trump out to dry but this is old and tired. Put it to bed. I doubt many people are going to care much and those that do are just never Trumpers anyway who are going to cling on to big old nothing burgers like this! Stop the insanity!
Lieu’s full of sh!t.
I just wonder how many times it has to be said. President Trump has no intention of firing the clueless entity that is Robert Mueller. It’s more trouble than it’s worth. He should go ahead and fire the little ferret Rosenstein. There were I would have said fire Sessions, but he seems to have redeemed himself. As for Congressman Lieu, he just wants to be mentioned in the same sentence with the rest of the incompetent California congressmen like Waters, Schiff and Swalwell.
Lieu, is that Vietnamese? Is this a refugee we brought from SE Asia to have a better life here? It is a life that was established long before this little jerk or his family got here and he wants to change it? He ought to be ashamed. If there’s any “civil unrest” maybe he ought to be the target. Look at what the Italians did to Mussolini and his woman for disrupting their society.
That’s total BS
Yellow man speck that’s why you hate if you are outsider and take you in look to another country you cannot find outsider to the government because once you take them in walla they think they are so important you will be important if you work and hard and honest and keep your mouth shot look at your country they don’t respect outsider. so be happy you are here.
Yellow man speck that’s why you hate if you are outsider and take you in look to another country you cannot find outsider to the government because once you take them in walla they think they are so important you will be important if you work and hard and honest and keep your mouth shot look at your country they don’t respect outsider. so be happy you are here.
Mr. Lieu may be spot on about Civil unrest. He has the reason wrong, however. Should Mr. Mueller manufacture some technical reason for charging our President with a BS crime, there will be civil unrest alright, but it won’t be coming from leftist dweebs like Mr. Lieu’s useful idiots! Better give up this witch hunt while you can, traitors!
Touche! I agree.
Yeah Mr. Lieu? Maybe they’ll start and end with destroying the liberal run cities in your loony toon California district. Now won’t that just be ducky?
trump is correct in what he says about mueller. what he did not say or indicate was that he considered or would fire him. it is dems who made up that fake story as usual. this congressman lieu is just the chosen one to fan the fire this time. i am sick of mueller, his phony investigation, the doj that is promoting this investigation and all in congress who want more taxpayer money spent. if you want civil unrest mr lieu you will get it if mueller comes up with some bogus charge against trump that has nothing to do with russia
collusion.
“Rep. Ted Lieu: ‘Widespread Civil Unrest’ If Trump Fires Mueller.”
Perhaps if someone would arrest George Soros, there wouldn’t be any assistance to finance “Widespread Civil Unrest”.
Sounds like the same BS, fear mongering, scare tactics they used to Bail-out Wall Street in 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXqrpqu-djQ
Corrected version: California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu predicted Monday there will be “widespread civil unrest” if [fill in the blank].
No, he’s giving them the permission to destroy, their own cities.