“Let that sink in,” says Matt Schlapp, whose wife is the White House Director of Strategic Communications
The spouse of a senior Trump White House aide declared on Twitter that Special Counsel Robert Mueller “will be gone soon” now that the Senate has confirmed William Barr to be the new Attorney General. Barr was confirmed 54-45 Thursday afternoon and was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts early Thursday evening.
Matt Schlapp (photo, right, with President Trump), who is spouse to White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp, took to Twitter to announce what many are seeing as news that Barr will end the Mueller investigation.
Presumably, Schlapp is suggesting that the soon-to-be former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was too controversial to end the Mueller investigation, and his predecessor, Jeff Sessions had recused himself so legally he could not dispose of the Russia probe.
Matt Schlapp is a Fox News political contributor who occasionally appears on MSNBC. He is also a conservative lobbyist and the head of the organization that runs the annual far right wing Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Former federal prosecutor and a CNN Legal Analyst Renato Mariotti makes clear what Schlapp is implying:
And as some others on social media noted, Schlapp’s tweet is “not an empty threat,” given his spouse’s job in the upper echelons of the Trump White House.
Many also noted were Barr to fire Mueller, especially at Trump’s urging, it could be obstruction of justice.
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