Roger Stone: Trump Should Fire Mueller and Rosenstein Immediately

Political operative Roger Stone said Thursday that the purpose of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is to give Democrats a hook on which to hang President Donald Trump, and that if he were the president, he’d fire Mueller immediately.

“This is a setup,” Stone said on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “This cake, in my opinion, is baked, and they are hell-bent on indicting the president whether they have a case or not.”

“I refer to Mueller, James Comey, and Rod Rosenstein as the three amigos,” Stone said. “These three guys have worked for both the Clintons and the Bushes. That tells you everything you need to know.”

Stone went on to say that Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, had no reason to hire a special counsel, or special prosecutor, as there is no evidence of a crime, and that Mueller is looking to “cook up” charges against the president.

“We can’t find a crime, in terms of ‘Russian collusion.’ So now Mr. Mueller intends to cook up what I think is either an obstruction of justice charge or a perjury charge against the president to give the Democrats a hook for their impeachment march,” he said.

Stone said he would fire Mueller “so fast his head would spin” and Rosenstein also and in the same speech would announce that he was appointing former congressman Bob Barr to replace Mueller.

Barr, a conservative Republican-turned-libertarian, was a former federal prosecutor who, as a congressman representing Georgia’s 7th Congressional District in the 90s, led the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

“This is partisan politics. This isn’t about the law, it’s not about the court, it’s not about the truth. It’s just about removing Donald Trump.”

Ingraham questioned the wisdom of the president firing the special prosecutor, saying she thought it would “cook” the president.

“Firing the counsel and leaving it at that would be a disaster,” Stone agreed. “Firing the counsel and replacing him with someone who is actually unbiased, someone who can actually clear this matter, I think would make a lot of sense. Otherwise, you can just fight this out when Mueller brings this charge, which he’s gonna do.”

Roger Stone is a longtime friend of Donald Trump’s and a controversial Republican strategist who organized the Northeast for Ronald Reagan in 1979 and 1980. He was a top political adviser on the Trump campaign until August of 2015, and even after leaving the campaign, continued to advise Trump informally.

FBI Director James Comey said in March at a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI was engaged in a counterintelligence investigation of possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and was looking at whether members of the Trump campaign were involved in “colluding” with Russia.

The president fired Comey on May 9, 2017, and Rosenstein subsequently appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to serve as special counsel on the Russia investigation.

Republicans in Congress have heaped praise on Mueller, with House Speaker Paul Ryan saying the president should let Mueller do his job, and let the investigation “go on independently and thoroughly.”

But early reports show Mueller has hired several top Democratic donors as investigators, and Ingraham noted on her show on Thursday the inherent problem with an investigation that has an “unlimited budget” and is, in the end, accountable to no one.

But Stone said there are specific problems with Mueller as well.

“Mr. Mueller meeting with Mr. Comey to prepare him for his Senate testimony. Ding, there it is right there,” he said. “Bias. Gone, you’re gone. He broke the rules. Gone. I think you have every reason to fire this guy.”

On May 22, it was reported that Mueller had reviewed Comey’s memos, which Comey said he wrote to make a record of conversations with the the president, and that the congressional hearing where Comey was to testify was being postponed until Mueller and Comey had a change to meet.

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Stone also noted that the careers of Rosenstein, Comey and Mueller are “intertwined.”

Comey previously held Rosenstein’s job — deputy attorney general — while Mueller preceded Comey as FBI director. All three were previously U.S. attorneys working for the Department of Justice.

“They have no case, based on every legal expert that I respect,” said Stone. “But, this is partisan politics. This isn’t about the law, it’s not about the court, it’s not about the truth. It’s just about removing Donald Trump and doing what they couldn’t do at the ballot box.”