As President Donald Trump unleashed a new assault on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, a group of prominent Utah lawyers and politicos are stepping up the pressure on Congress to protect Mueller and let the investigation run its course.
In the coming days, these Utahns, working with the national group Republicans for the Rule of Law plan to launch a series of pieces in local newspapers, sit for interviews and take part in a social media campaign to support Mueller completing his work.
It comes at a time when Trump and his team are ramping up attacks on the legitimacy of the special counsel’s work, with the president frequently referring to it as a partisan witch hunt that has found “zero” evidence of wrongdoing by him or his advisors.