DEMS/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and his Republican allies went on the offensive on Monday [3-25-19], vowing to pursue and even punish those responsible for the Russia investigation now that the special counsel has wrapped up without implicating him or his campaign in a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, grim faced and simmering with anger, denounced adversaries who have pounded him for two years over Russian election interference, calling them “treasonous” people who are guilty of ‘evil’ deeds and should be investigated themselves. ‘Those people will certainly be looked at,’ he said. On Capitol Hill, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced he would do just that while also calling for a new special counsel to look at the origins of the last one. White House officials and Republican lawmakers demanded the resignation of a Democratic committee chairman investigating the Russia matter, and Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign lobbied television networks to blackball Democrats who advanced the collusion theory.”
–Peter Baker and Nicholas Fandos, “Trump and Republicans Seek to Turn the Tables in Post-Mueller Washington,” The New York Times online, March 25, 2019