President Trump in a tweet on Wednesday quoted his former lawyer John Dowd criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller ‘s investigation into Trump’s possible involvement with…
President Trump in a tweet on Wednesday quoted his former lawyer John Dowd criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller ‘s investigation into Trump’s possible involvement with Russian collusion during the 2016 election.
“This isn’t some game,” Dowd told Mueller during a meeting in March, according to The Washington Post . “You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States.”
The president quoted Dowd in his tweet and added that, with all the international issues the U. S. currently faces, «there is not much time to be thinking about this, especially since there was no Russian ‘Collusion.’”
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The president’s remarks come after reports that Mueller suggested to Trump’s lawyers in the same March meeting that he would subpoena the president if Trump refused to talk with his team.
Dowd, who had been leading the response to Mueller’s investigation, abruptly resigned in March because of reported disputes over the team’s strategy for responding to Mueller’s probe.
The New York Times on Monday reported a list compiled by Mueller’s team of questions to present to Trump. According to the Post, Trump’s legal team actually created the list of questions they thought Mueller’s team would want to ask the president. The questions were based on topics that Mueller’s team had said they wanted to discuss with Trump.
Trump criticized the reported list of questions on Tuesday while claiming that the questions didn’t focus on alleged collusion.
The list included questions about the decision to fire national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI director James Comey, whether the president communicated with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the election, and reports that the president wanted to fire Mueller.
