Trump, who isn't typically shy about leveling criticism, especially on Twitter, hasn't commented on the longtime former Federal Bureau of Investigation director.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed Ruddy's statement, saying he does not speak for the president.
"I can't imagine that they're going to be insane enough to go through with this threat", Schiff said later in an interview on MSNBC's "Hardball", adding: "I think it's just a way of raising doubts about this very good man who's respected by people on both sides of the aisle". In an interview on CNN's "New Day", Ruddy said, "I think it is a consideration the President has had because Mueller is illegitimate as special counsel". After Mueller's appointment was announced last month, Trump floated the idea of firing him, but staffers sought to squash the idea, which they believed would "turn a bad situation into a catastrophe", The Times reported.
"When I ran, it was make America great again and that is we're doing it", said Trump during a cabinet meeting on Monday. Let's not forget what this is originally all about. "Russian Federation is trying to meddle into our elections".
House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters Tuesday any talk about Trump wanting to rid himself of the special investigator amounts to "rumor".
"If President fired Bob Mueller, Congress would immediately re-establish independent counsel and appoint Bob Mueller", he tweeted. "I appointed him. I stand by it... and I am going to defend the integrity of that investigation", he said. "I think that's just nonsense".
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He told BBC's This Week: "She should have been there with the residents, which is what Jeremy Corbyn was". The refurbishment, carried between 2015 and 2016, saw new external cladding installed on the building.
But testifying in the Senate Tuesday, Rosenstein said he is confident that Mueller will have "the full independence he needs" to investigate thoroughly.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he never had conversations with FBI Director James Comey about his job performance before Comey's firing. "You have to look at everything".
Newsmax founder Chris Ruddy's decision to say that President Trump is weighing firing special counsel Robert Mueller harmed Trump's ability to fire him, a Trump confidant told The Daily Caller. And it was Rosenstein who appointed Mueller in the first place.
With its echoes of Richard Nixon's infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" during Watergate, firing Mueller sounds like an insane, nearly suicidal proposition.
The Saturday Night Massacre has a powerful resonance in modern American history.
The reason the deputy attorney general is in charge is his boss has recused himself. He seems unlikely to carry out such a travesty of justice, only to go down in historical disgrace as Trump's Robert Bork.
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