Trump fires yet another official who played a key role in investigating Trump
4/4/20
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from The Washington Post,
4/4/20:
The White House offered a Friday-night news dump for the ages this weekend, with President Trump notifying Congress of his intent to fire intelligence community Inspector General Michael Atkinson.
Atkinson, of course, played a major role in what eventually became Trump’s impeachment, serving as a conduit for the whistleblower complaint that launched the congressional inquiry.
The move is merely the latest example of Trump pushing out someone with a degree of oversight over him personally or whose actions impacted investigations of him:
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