GOP senator: Mueller ‘needs to clean house of partisans’

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Saturday that special counsel Robert Mueller “needs to clean house of partisans” in his investigation of alleged Trump campaign ties to Russia, following the revelation of biased text messages sent by an FBI agent on the case. 

Cornyn took issue with former Attorney General Eric Holder “speaking on behalf of the vast majority of the American people” in a recent tweet saying that Republicans should halt their criticism of Mueller, and that there would be political consequences for trying to remove him from the Russia investigation.  

“But Muller needs to clean house of partisans,” the senator tweeted.

But Mueller needs to clean house of partisans https://t.co/g8SwgAKtfH

— Senator JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) December 16, 2017

He had previously tweeted “you don’t” in response to Holder’s claim.

You don’t https://t.co/7lHYkIloyz

— Senator JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) December 16, 2017

Speaking on behalf of the vast majority of the American people, Republicans in Congress be forewarned:any attempt to remove Bob Mueller will not be tolerated.These are BS attacks on him/his staff that are blatantly political-designed to hide the real wrongdoing. Country not party

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) December 14, 2017

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Text messages handed over to Congress by the Justice Department reveal that a top counterintelligence agent working under Mueller on the investigation sent anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton text messages to his then-girlfriend, a fellow FBI employee.

Mueller removed the agent, Peter Strzok, from the investigation when the messages were discovered.

Republican lawmakers this week during a House Judiciary Committee hearing suggested that Mueller is running a tainted investigation, and pushed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller’s team, to consider a second special counsel.