Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not planning to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged collusion between Trump aides and Russia during the 2016 election. On Saturday, an attorney for Trump’s transition team sent a letter to two Republican committee chairmen in Congress, claiming the emails were provided to Mueller improperly. A lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad.”Analysts said however that the letter from the Trump transition lawyer was a political move rather than a sound legal gambit. A spokesman for the government agency which provided the emails to Mueller told BuzzFeed “no expectation of privacy” could be assumed. Among respondents to the AP poll, 63% thought that Trump did attempt to obstruct the Mueller investigation.

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2017 17:30 UTC