President Donald Trump has fired back at Senator Mark Warner, accusing him of being ‘near drunken’ when he claimed to know secrets held by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Virginia Democrat Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was speaking on Friday night at a fundraiser in his house on Martha’s Vineyard when he joked about having inside information.
‘If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months,’ Warner told the crowd, according to Politico.
Trump fired back in a tweet on Monday: ‘Why is Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), perhaps in a near drunken state, claiming he has information that only he and Bob Mueller, the leader of the 13 Angry Democrats on a Witch Hunt, knows? Isn’t this highly illegal. Is it being investigated?’
Trump fired back at Senator Mark Warner, accusing him of being ‘near drunken’ when he claimed to know secrets held by Special Counsel Robert Mueller
Warner (seen last month) said at a Friday fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard: ‘If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know.’
Warner explained earlier on Monday that his remarks at the fundraiser had been a ‘bad joke’.
Thirteen out of the 17 attorneys on Mueller’s team who have been publicly identified are or have been registered to vote as Democrats, while the remaining four are registered as independent or do not appear to be registered.
Trump has taken to calling them the ’13 Angry Democrats’ in an apparent reference to the film ‘Twelve Angry Men’.
Also on Monday evening, Trump called for the House to open its doors for the testimony of embattled FBI employee Peter Strozk, whose biased remarks against Trump in text messages to his bureau lover Lisa Page have emerged in recent months.
Strozk is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees on Wednesday at 11am.
A a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee confirmed on Monday that the Strozk’s testimony will be closed to the public.
‘The hearing of Peter Strzok and the other hating frauds at the FBI & DOJ should be shown to the public on live television, not a closed door hearing that nobody will see,’ Trump wrote in a tweet.
‘We should expose these people for what they are – there should be total transparency!’
Strozk was a high-ranking official on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and also worked briefly on Mueller’s team investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election before he was removed.
The recent Inspector General’s report on the handling of the Clinton probe revealed previously undisclosed texts where Strzok told Page they would have to ‘stop’ Trump from becoming president.