Trump blasts Mueller as 'highly conflicted,' calls impeachment a 'dirty, filthy, disgusting word'

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-blasts-mueller-as-highly-
conflicted-after-special-counsel-makes-rare-public-statement

President Trump blasted Robert Mueller as “highly conflicted” on Thursday,
claiming the special counsel "would have brought charges" against him in
the Russia investigation if he had "anything" but that "there were no
charges to bring," while calling impeachment a "dirty, filthy, disgusting
word."

The president's comments were in response to what Mueller said during his
rare public appearance on Wednesday, and in response to Democrats using
Mueller's statements as ammunition to begin considering impeachment
proceedings. Mueller emphasized a day earlier that charging the president
with a crime was "not an option" due to longstanding Justice Department
policy and maintained that if he had "confidence" the president did not
commit a crime, he would have said so.

“The Greatest Presidential Harassment in history. After spending
$40,000,000 over two dark years, with unlimited access, people, resources
and cooperation, highly conflicted Robert Mueller would have brought
charges, if he had ANYTHING, but there were no charges to bring!” Trump
tweeted Thursday.

MUELLER SAYS CHARGING TRUMP WITH A CRIME WAS 'NOT AN OPTION' IN RUSSIA
PROBE, IN FIRST PUBLIC REMARKS


Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
The Greatest Presidential Harassment in history. After spending
$40,000,000 over two dark years, with unlimited access, people, resources
and cooperation, highly conflicted Robert Mueller would have brought
charges, if he had ANYTHING, but there were no charges to bring!

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The president, in his tweet said that Russia helped him "get elected"
through their interference in the 2016 election, though said he "had
nothing to do" with it. Mueller said Wednesday "there were multiple,
systematic efforts to interfere in our election," but said there was
"insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy" involving the Trump
campaign. Later Thursday morning, the president clarified his tweet, by
stating that Russia did not help him win the election.

“Russia, Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this
Witch Hunt Hoax...And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to
do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn’t
exist,” Trump continued. “So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News
Media say he fought back against this phony crime that didn’t exist, this
horrendous false acquisition, and he shouldn’t fight back, he should just
sit back and take it. Could this be Obstruction? No, Mueller didn’t find
Obstruction either. Presidential Harassment!”


Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Russia, Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this
Witch Hunt Hoax...And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to
do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn’t
exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News Media,.....

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Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
· May 30, 2019
Russia, Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this
Witch Hunt Hoax...And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to
do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn’t
exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News Media,.....


Donald J. Trump
?
@realDonaldTrump
....say he fought back against this phony crime that didn’t exist, this
horrendous false accusation, and he shouldn’t fight back, he should just
sit back and take it. Could this be Obstruction? No, Mueller didn’t find
Obstruction either. Presidential Harassment!

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Later Thursday morning, Trump, departing the White House, repeated his
criticism that the special counsel was "totally conflicted," and claimed
that Mueller, who served as FBI director under the Bush and Obama
administrations, wanted to be tapped to lead the bureau again during the
Trump administration.

"He wanted to be FBI director," Trump said. "Mueller should have never
been chosen--he wanted the FBI job and didn't get it and then was picked
as special counsel."


Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Robert Mueller came to the Oval Office (along with other potential
candidates) seeking to be named the Director of the FBI. He had already
been in that position for 12 years, I told him NO. The next day he was
named Special Counsel - A total Conflict of Interest. NICE!

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Trump added that he believes that Mueller is a "true never Trumper," and
blasted the special counsel prosecutors as "18 Trump haters and some of
the worst humans."

As for Russia, Trump said "Russia didn't help me get elected. I got me
elected."

"Russia didn't help me at all, if anything, they helped Hillary. This is
all about Russia, Russia, Russia -- it turned out to be a hoax," Trump
said, adding that "of course" he "fights back" against "false"
accusations."

"It's a very sad period for this country," Trump added. "And in the end, I
will consider what's happening now to be one of my greatest achievements."

The president’s comments come just one day following Mueller gave his
first and only public remarks on the Russia investigation. The special
counsel on Wednesday from the Justice Department announced that the
investigation was officially complete, that the special counsel’s office
was closed, and that he would be resigning from the agency and returning
to private life.

Mueller did not mince words on his inquiry into whether the president
obstructed justice, setting the stage for congressional Democrats to
intensify their impeachment push.

“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime,
we would have said that,” Mueller said. “We did not determine whether the
president did commit a crime.”

Mueller explained that the longstanding Justice Department policy, which
is derived from an Office of Legal Counsel opinion, states that a sitting
president cannot be charged with a crime.

“Charging the president with a crime was not an option we could consider,”
Mueller said, adding that “it would be unfair to accuse someone of a crime
when there could be no court resolution of the charge.”

But, in what many on the left took as a signal to Congress to begin
impeachment proceedings, Mueller stated that: “The Constitution requires a
process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse the
president of wrongdoing.”

Mueller’s statement echoed his report which stated that Congress “may
apply obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers
of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances
and the principle that no person is above the law.”

“We concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other
about whether the president committed a crime,” Mueller added. “That is
the office’s final position.”

DEMS RAMP UP CALLS FOR TRUMP IMPEACHMENT AFTER MUELLER SPEAKS OUT ON
RUSSIA PROBE

Congressional Democrats and 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls
intensified their calls for impeachment following Mueller’s public
remarks. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., under pressure from her
party, still seems cool to the idea.

“We want to do what’s right and what gets results,” Pelosi said Wednesday.
“We’re legislating, we’re investigating and we’re litigating.”

She added: “Everybody wants justice, everybody wants the president to be
held accountable.”

But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., whose
committee would lead any potential impeachment proceedings, said: “all
options are on the table.”

“Given that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was unable to pursue criminal
charges against the President, it falls to Congress to respond to the
crimes, lies and other wrongdoing of President Trump—and we will do so,”
Nadler said in a statement. “No one, not even the President of the United
States, is above the law.”

But Trump blasted the idea of impeachment, calling it a "scam."

"I don't see how they can," Trump said. "It's a dirty, filthy, disgusting
word, impeach. It's high crimes -- there was no high crime. So how do you
impeach?"

But over at the White House, senior officials seized on the part of
Mueller’s announcement that clearly stated the probe was complete.

“The Special Counsel has completed the investigation, closed his office,
and has closed the case. Mr. Mueller explicitly said that he has nothing
to add beyond the report, and therefore, does not plan to testify before
Congress. The report was clear—there was no collusion, no conspiracy—and
the Department of Justice confirmed there was no obstruction," White House
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. "Special Counsel
Mueller also stated that Attorney General Barr acted in good faith in his
handling of the report."

She added: "After two years, the Special Counsel is moving on with his
life, and everyone else should do the same.”

Trump attorney Jay Sekulow also weighed in, noting that Mueller's
resignation "puts a period on a two year investigation that produced no
findings of collusion or obstruction against the President."

"The Attorney General conclusively determined that there was no
obstruction by the President," Sekulow continued. "In the words of
Attorney General Barr: ‘the report identifies no actions that, in our
judgment, constitute obstructive conduct."

Meanwhile, Attorney General Bill Barr appointed U.S. attorney from
Connecticut, John Durham, to investigate the origins of the Russia probe,
including the use and assignments of FBI informants, as well as alleged
improper issuance of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
warrants. Durham was asked to help Barr to "ensure that intelligence
collection activities by the U.S. Government related to the Trump 2016
Presidential Campaign were lawful and appropriate."



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No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.

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