Trump Has No Plans to Fire Special Counsel, Spokeswoman Says
- Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy said president weighing dismissal
- Deputy attorney general asserts he alone has that authority
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President Donald Trump doesn’t plan to fire the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a White House spokeswoman said, rebutting assertions by a Trump friend in a television interview that the president was weighing a dismissal.
“While the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so,” Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One on Tuesday.