If Trump fires Mueller, will he reap the whirlwind?

Donald Trump sure seems ready to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller—even if White House lawyers insists it’s the furthest thing from his mind. “The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!” A day later: “Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added…does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!”

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Republicans took to the Sunday shows apparently concerned about where that tweetstorm could be headed. “I mean, talking to my colleagues all along it was, you know, once he goes after Mueller, then we’ll take action,” Sen. Jeff Flake said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Sen. Lindsey Graham said Trump firing Mueller would “be the beginning of the end of his presidency.”

But would he really do it? And what political consequences would he face if he did? We rounded up a handful of political experts to answer that question, and they’re just as confused as we are. Republicans and Democrats, Trump friend and Trump foe alike all agree, more or less, that firing Mueller should be a red line—but they’re not so sure it would be. Here’s what they told us.

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