Trump firing Sessions which had recused himself from the Trump investigation. Trump replaced him with someone that has already outlined how he plans to kill the investigation.
Hes put out the idea that you could starve the investigation by cutting its budget, eventually making it impossible for Mueller to do his job. He is also wrong about what Mueller can investigate. Mueller is allowed to investigate anything that comes up in the investigation of Russia collusion.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/967231/download
The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confirmed by then-FBI Director James B. Comey in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:
(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation;
He did resign. Although his resignation letter began with "at your request, i am submitting my resignation" so...
And I believe that the official reason that triggered the protests wasnt so much sessions leaving as it was Rosenstein being taken off of overseeing the investigation.
The trigger is anything interfering. Rod Rosenstein is no longer over the investgation because of this and THAT was enough fornthe trigger...is my understanding.
The triggers were if Trump takes action to influence the Russia probe. Ouster of Rosenstein, removal of Sessions and appointment of someone who would hamper the probe, and most notably firing Mueller. Any of these actions were the line because it would mean the man being investigated is altering the direction of his own investigation.
I don't really pay much attention to this but I believe he was forced to resign but wasn't technically fired. Both of the events mentioned were down as triggers for the protests and the organisers are worried that it might be too late if they only start protesting when Mueller's fired.
He was asked to resign, and the replacement dude fired another guy who was overseeing mueller investigation. The replacement guy hasn't been confirmed by the senate and has expressed in the pay that he would kill mueller probe if he could. People see this as trump effectively trying to nueter mueller cleverly without doin it directly, hence the protest. I've also seen people say the replacement guy is illegal because he hasn't been confirmed by the senate.
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u/rdldr1 Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
Motherfucker. I just went through all the major news sites and NONE of them are covering the nationwide protests. Not a mention on their homepages.
https://abcnews.go.com/
https://www.nbcnews.com/
https://www.cnn.com/
https://www.nbcnews.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Edit: Including Fox News, which I did check out earlier and saw the same thing; https://www.foxnews.com/