Schumer calls for special prosecutor, suggests cover-up

By AUSTIN WRIGHT and SEUNG MIN KIM

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint a special prosecutor for the federal probe into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russian officials — warning that failing to do so will lead the public to “rightly suspect” that FBI Director James Comey’s surprise firing Tuesday “was part of a cover-up.”

“The only way the American people can have faith in this investigation is for it to be led by a fearless independent special prosecutor,” Schumer told reporters at the Capitol. “If Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein does not appoint an independent special prosecutor, every American will rightly suspect that the decision to fire Director Comey was part of a cover-up.”

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