“This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!” Trump wrote, his anger boiling over. Trump said he had “respect” for the move, but added: “I think it divides the country.”Įarly in the day, a seething Trump took to Twitter to blast the appointment, which shook Washington and sent world stock markets tumbling. On Wednesday, an investigation into his campaign’s ties with Moscow was significantly strengthened by the appointment of straight-shooting former FBI director Robert Mueller to lead it.
“There is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but I can always speak for myself, and the Russians - zero.”
“The entire thing has been a witch hunt,” Trump said during a press conference in the East Room of the White House. Lashing out after a high-powered special counsel was appointed to investigate events around the 2016 election, Trump denied he ever plotted with the Kremlin to win the White House.
Washington: President Donald Trump declared himself the victim of the “greatest witch hunt” in American political history Thursday and slapped down accusations he tried to quash a probe into collusion between his campaign team and Russia.
