President Donald Trump declared on Sunday that he will not rein in his new acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, if he attempts to curtail special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Trump-Russia scandal. “It’s going to be up to him,” Trump said during his appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” according to Politico. “I would not get involved.” Although the president insisted that he didn’t know about Whitaker’s staunch opposition to the probe prior to appointing him and that “I don’t think it had any effect” on his decision to choose Whitaker as a replacement for then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump also made it clear that he sympathizes Whitaker’s views. “What do you do when a person’s right? There is no collusion. He happened to be right,” Trump told “Fox News Sunday.” Trump’s decision to appoint Whitaker has been harshly criticized for a number of reasons. Foremost among them is Whitaker’s long history of trying to discredit the Mueller probe, which he is supposed to impartially oversee as head of the Justice Department. In July 2017, Whitaker told CNN that “I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesn’t fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt,” according to The Washington Post. That same year he called Mueller’s appointment “ridiculous” and “a little fishy.” On other occasions he has argued that Mu
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