Mr. Trump's latest tweets drew a concerned statement from Sen.
Late Thursday night, seemingly unprompted, deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - he of the James Comey firing memo and the appointment of Bob Mueller as special counsel in the Russian Federation investigation - put out a very odd statement on just how awful anonymously-sourced stories are. Moreover, Comey said not a single vote had been changed in the 2016 United States election as result of alleged Russian activities.
Moreover, Comey admitted that not a single vote in the 2016 U.S. election was changed as a result of Russian actions and the media has been overwhelmingly wrong on their stories concerning Russia.
When you listen to James Comey's testimony about how the president tried to get him to drop the investigation, and then you see that he fired Comey when he didn't drop the investigation - That is evidence of obstruction of justice. "Sad!" Trump tweeted Friday morning.
The White House noted in a statement last month that FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe testified that "there has been no effort to impede our investigation to date".
Mueller investigation appeared to be reaching a broadening circle of current and former officials.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says former FBI Director James Comey's acknowledgement that he had given memos of his conversations with President Donald Trump to a friend who leaked them to the media is "weird".
Putin: more US sanctions would be harmful, talk of retaliation premature
The new Russian Federation sanctions would create a congressional review process if the executive branch eases current sanctions. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that new U.S. sanctions on Russia will damage ties between the two countries.
After meeting with Mueller in a classified session, the leaders of the Senate panel indicated that their inquiry would steer clear of obstruction of justice to focus instead on Russian Federation meddling in the elections - and whether there was any Trump campaign collusion with officials tied to the Kremlin.
Allies have even floated the idea that Mueller may be fired. "Witch Hunt", he said.
Trump's tweet Friday reflected the first official confirmation that he is being investigated by the special counsel for the reasons he fired Comey last month. "Regulations way down, jobs and enthusiasm way up!" In that reading, Trump appears to be saying that the media is inventing a storyline about him being under investigation for obstruction justice - rather than confirming than the investigation is real.
"The Fake News Media hates when I use what has turned out to be my very powerful Social Media - over 100 million people!"
In another tweet, Trump called it "the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history - led by some very bad and conflicted people!"
They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story.
"Today the President of the United States confirmed he's under criminal investigation". This would amount to an implicit admission that the Washington Post report is accurate.
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