Trump's 9:07 a.m. tweet appeared to be principally directed at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the number-two official at the Justice Department who authored a memo justifying Comey's firing.
Rosenstein is overseeing the probe by Mueller, which has reportedly expanded to include whether Trump obstructed justice when he fired Comey and allegedly pressured intelligence officials on the Russian Federation investigation.
Rosenstein's statement also came hours before an ABC report that claimed the deputy attorney general had said he might need to recuse himself from Mueller's probe. It's the phony justifications his administration gave for the firing, it's Trump's own belated confirmation that a major factor in the firing was the Russian Federation investigation, and it's the troubling pattern of Trump's attempts to interfere with investigations into his associates before the firing.
The memo that the White House at first said was critical to the decision, before Trump suggested it was irrelevant because his mind was already made up.
Until Trump's Friday-morning Twitter burst, only the Washington Post's sources had indicated that Trump was being investigated for possible obstruction of justice.
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The tweet marked the first public, official confirmation that the president is under investigation for firing Comey in May.
President Donald Trump confirmed Friday he was under investigation and appeared to take aim at a senior Justice Department official, in a tweet that seemed to encapsulate his frustration with the ongoing focus on Russia's involvement in the 2016 election. "President Trump said prior that once he gets in he's going to kick the S-H-I-T out of the enemy".
In light of Trump's concern about leaks, it's possible that Rosenstein's Thursday night statement was aiming to appease a president who has himself often criticized the news media for citing unnamed sources. Rosenstein can fire Mueller, but that doesn't make him the one investigating Trump. But on Friday, Trump said he is being investigation for firing Comey. Comey told a Senate committee last week that those conversations convinced him that the president was attempting to pressure him into pledging fealty and easing up on a probe into former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.
During congressional testimony last week, Comey stated under oath the President was not under investigation by the FBI prior to or after his firing. Trump tweeted. "I can go around them".
The new allegations against Trump center on his own admission that he fired Comey because of the Russian Federation investigation, and suggestions he asked several top intelligence officials for their help altering the inquiry's direction.
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