Outgoing senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is certainly on President Trump‘s side, but he really doesn’t think it would be a good idea to fire Robert Mueller.

Ever since the firing of Andrew McCabe, Trump spent several days rage–tweeting about the Mueller investigation and generating new questions about whether he’s about to fire the special counsel on Russia. CNN’s Manu Raju got a brief statement on this from Hatch, who said firing Mueller would be “the stupidest thing” Trump could do in this situation.

Orrin Hatch told me he does NOT support legislation to protect the special counsel — but says this: Firing Mueller would be “the stupidest thing” Trump could do — Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 19, 2018

Hatch’s comments echo several other Republican lawmakers who recently said that axing Mueller would be disastrous for Trump’s presidency.

Watch above, via CNN.

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