Let's see if I have this right. If Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gets fired or resigns:
Link: Secret waiver clears possible Trump Russia Rosenstein replacement
- Oversight of the Mueller investigation would fall to the next available person in the Justice Department's hierarchy, Noel Francisco.
- Noel Francisco is a partner in the law firm that represents Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the Russia probe.
- Noel Francisco was a lawyer on Trump’s transition team (which also has been pulled into the Mueller investigation).
- The White House in April granted an Ethics Waiver for Noel Francisco.
- That waiver gives Francisco immunity from having to recuse himself from supervising Mueller's investigation.
- Francisco would become the person signing off on the special counsel’s budget.
- Francisco would become the person making decisions on subpoenas and indictments for that investigation.
- Francisco would become the person who determines whether or not the final report is publicly disclosed.
- Francisco would become the person overseeing the investigation of himself.
- That ethics waiver was never listed with the 28 other ethics waivers granted by the White House, giving that waiver the secrecy it should not have had.
- That waiver is signed by then-White House Counsel Don McGahn, who is also a partner with Francisco at the same law firm that represents Trump's presidential campaign in the Russia probe.
Link: Secret waiver clears possible Trump Russia Rosenstein replacement