TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s son suggested Tuesday evening that ‘people at the highest levels of government’ are conspiring against the Trump administration, evidence, he said, of the president’s campaign claims about a ‘rigged’ system.
‘There is, and there are, people at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America,’ Donald Trump Jr. told a group of young conservatives in Florida, lobbing accusations of bias at special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in last year’s election and allegations that Trump’s campaign somehow colluded with those efforts…
Trump Jr.’s remarks were first published by CNN.
Mueller’s team has come under scrutiny in recent weeks in the wake of his firing of FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was found to have sent text messages critical of Trump before the election. Strzok’s dismissal from the special counsel’s team has amplified voices from Trump defenders who claim Mueller’s entire investigation is baseless and intended only to harm the president politically.”
-Louis Nelson, “Trump Jr. suggests top government officials are undermining his father,” Politico, Dec. 20, 2017 06:51am