4/10/2019

DEMS/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [4-10-19] called special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation an ‘attempted coup’ intended to remove him from office…Trump has long derided Mueller’s probe as a ‘witch hunt’ and accused the former FBI director of building a team stacked with Democrats. Mueller, a registered Republican, submitted a report on his two-year long investigation last month. Attorney General William Barr, in a summary of the report, wrote that Mueller didn’t find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 presidential election. The attorney general also wrote that Mueller did not fully exonerate Trump in an obstruction of justice inquiry, but Barr added that he did not believe there was enough evidence to bring charges on the matter. The president, responding to Barr’s ostensible exoneration of the president, said Mueller acted honorably in conducting his investigation. Trump has since called for an investigation into how Mueller’s probe began. The president previously said that he would like to see the full Mueller report released, but Trump has since backpedaled somewhat from that position.”

Rebecca Morin, “Trump calls Mueller probe an ‘attempted coup’,” Politico, April 10, 2019 12:09 pm