WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the firing last June of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, according to four people told of the matter, but ultimately backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive.
— NYT: Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit (Paywall)
(with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe)
Once upon a midnight tweeting, while my thumbs drummed dumbly beating,
Repeating lies of greater size than lies that I did tweet before.
Abed, bloated, Big Mac snacking, suddenly I heard a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my locked, barred door.
“'Tis perhaps the maid,” I muttered, “tapping at my locked, barred door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Ah, thought I, no doubt she, as standard White House policy,
Wishes to collect the shirts that I have strewn upon the floor.
“Wench, be gone,” quoth I. “I am TRUMP, I'll not comply
With norms or forms which I find duller than a stale, unsugared cruller.
Besides I loathe those or your color and those who might be called Abdullah.”
A voice said, “It's Robert Mueller!”