{"id":318736,"date":"2017-07-24T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-dem-leader-warns-trump-firing-mueller-to-trigger-cataclysm\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T17:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T16:46:47","slug":"senate-dem-leader-warns-trump-firing-mueller-to-trigger-cataclysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-dem-leader-warns-trump-firing-mueller-to-trigger-cataclysm\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Dem leader warns Trump: Firing Mueller to trigger &#039;cataclysm&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warns of a \u201ccataclysm\u201d in Washington if President Donald Trump instructs the Justice Department to dismiss special counsel Robert Mueller.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be one of the greatest, greatest breaking of rule of law, of traditional democratic norms of what our democracy is about,&#8221; the New York senator said on ABC\u2019s This Week. &#8220;It would cause a cataclysm in Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumer also said he cannot imagine his Republican colleagues &#8220;just standing by&#8221; if the president was to pardon himself or any of his aides who are under investigation. Trump tweeted Saturday that &#8220;all agree the US President has the complete power to pardon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department appointed Mueller as special counsel in May, following Trump&#8217;s surprise firing of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/24\/529563\/Schumer-Firing-Mueller-to-trigger-cataclysm\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warns of a \u201ccataclysm\u201d in Washington if President Donald Trump instructs the Justice Department to dismiss special counsel Robert Mueller. &#8220;It would be one of the greatest, greatest breaking of rule of law, of traditional democratic norms of what our democracy is about,&#8221; the New York senator said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}