US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warns of a “cataclysm” in Washington if President Donald Trump instructs the Justice Department to dismiss special counsel Robert Mueller.
“It would be one of the greatest, greatest breaking of rule of law, of traditional democratic norms of what our democracy is about,” the New York senator said on ABC’s This Week. “It would cause a cataclysm in Washington.”
Schumer also said he cannot imagine his Republican colleagues “just standing by” if the president was to pardon himself or any of his aides who are under investigation. Trump tweeted Saturday that “all agree the US President has the complete power to pardon.”
President Trump and his inner circle are facing congressional and independent investigations for possible collusion with Russia in its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The Justice Department appointed Mueller as special counsel in May, following Trump’s surprise firing of…