Former U.S. Attorney Michael Moore said on CNN Saturday that President Donald Trump would likely try to remove special counsel Robert Mueller from his position — even though doing so would be politically disastrous.

“I think that it would be devastating to the president himself and yes, I think he’s going to have to try to fire Bob Mueller because I think Mueller already has the information on him, probably, to move forward with the investigation,” said Moore, who was the chief federal prosecutor for the Middle District of Georgia.

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Trump has already unsuccessfully tried to order his White House counsel to fire Mueller, according to The New York Times.

Moore told CNN that Republicans were ramping up their attacks on the FBI and the Mueller investigation because they were “starting to feel the noose tighten around the administration and the people higher up in the administration.”

“He’s probably looking at the money and following the money. There’s a reason that Trump did want to give his tax returns, there’s a reason that Eric Trump said all the money for the golf course was coming from the Russians during the time that no banks were lending money on those things. All that stuff is out there, and my guess is that Bob Mueller already has a pretty good grasp of where he is at.”

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