With Matt Whitaker’s appointment as Acting Attorney General, Richmonders joined hundreds across the country last night (11/8/18), in nationwide demonstrations to advocate for the protection of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Hundreds of demonstrators chanted and carried signs, rejecting Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker’s oversight, of the Trump-Russia investigation. “Whitaker recuse, Trump’s gotta lose.”
Adam Short, a local member with MoveOn, says by appointing Whitaker, President Trump has undercut the independence of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. “The investigation will be starved of funds so it cannot operate. But Mueller will be retained so that the democrats can’t hire him.”
Short says Whitaker’s public opposition of the investigation, via his 2017 op-ed for CNN, is a reason he shouldn’t be in charge of it.