Trump
is denying wanting to shut down Mueller’s Russia probe, stating on Thursday
that he would’ve fired the special counsel a long time ago if he wanted to.
The
president tweeted that if he wanted to fire Mueller last December, as reported
by the NY Times, he would’ve fired him. Trump added that it was just more fake news
from biased newspapers.
The
story claimed that Trump was ‘angry over reports of a new round of subpoenas’
from Robert Mueller’s office at that time and that he ‘said to advisers in no
uncertain terms that Mueller’s investigation must be shut down.’
There’s
been a lot of speculation that the president could fire Mr. Mueller, yet Trump
and his legal team previously denied that he is considering taking those steps.
Mr.
Mueller's probe started as an investigation inside Russia's attempt at meddling
in the 2016 contest yet broadened into an investigation on Trump campaign
associates and aides after the presidential election and years before.
The
president was vocal in his opposition to what he referred to as the “corrupt”
and “fake” investigation.
Trump
tweeted on Wednesday that ‘most of that bad blood with Russia was caused by the
corrupt and fake Russia investigation that was headed by the Democrat
loyalists, or those who worked for Barack Obama.’
Donald
Trump – who oftentimes lashes out at the investigation yet seldom takes aim at Mr.
Mueller himself --- took a shot on Wednesday at the special counsel and Rod
Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General.
The
president said that, “Mueller is the most conflicted of all.”
The
president’s attack on Rosenstein references how the Rod Rosenstein signed the
FISA surveillance warrant for Carter Page, previous Donald Trump campaign
adviser. Trump repeatedly decried the United States Department of Justice and
the FBI’s efforts at obtaining the surveillance warrant.
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