President Donald Trump says allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia are bogus and the special counsel should hurry up and conclude his probe into election interference.
‘There has been absolutely no collusion. It’s been stated that they have no collusion,’ Trump said. ‘They ought to get to the end of it ‘cause I think the American public is sick of it.’
The president was responding to a question at an impromptu press conference about special counsel Bob Mueller’s probe. The investigation itself has lasted more than a year, although Mueller wasn’t involved until May.
President Donald Trump says allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia are bogus and the special counsel should just conclude his probe into election interference
‘There has been absolutely no collusion. It’s been stated that they have no collusion,’ Trump said. ‘They ought to get to the end of it ‘cause I think the American public is sick of it
The president was responding to a question at an impromptu press conference about special counsel Bob Mueller’s probe. The investigation itself has lasted more than a year, although Mueller wasn’t involved until May
A reporter was attempting to ask Trump if he would meet with Mueller to expedite the Department of Justice’s far-reaching probe into election meddling, and potentially, obstruction of justice.
Trump interrupted the journalist, the Washington Examiner’s Sarah Westwood, and said, ‘The whole Russia thing was an excuse for the Democrats losing the election. And it turns out to be just one excuse.’
‘Today Hillary [Clinton] blamed Nigel Farage. That one came out of nowhere. That was just an excuse for the Democrats losing an election,’ he stated.
In an interview with BBC on Sunday, Clinton did invoke Farage, the former UKIP leader.
‘You had Farage campaigning for Trump. The big lie is a very potent tool,’ she said.
Farage swung back at Clinton, saying she was in a ‘state of denial’ and ‘blames the whole world’ for her loss, including the Russians.
This morning, Trump chimed in on Twitter and said, ‘I was recently asked if Crooked Hillary Clinton is going to run in 2020? My answer was, “I hope so!” ‘
Clinton, Democrats’ 2016 nominee for president, reemerged Sunday to claim that Putin wanted Trump to win because he had a grudge against her since her time as secretary of state.
‘I think he was successful in what he did in our election because the more we learn about it, the more we understand that highly-sophisticated intelligence analysts tried to sow divisiveness within our country,’ she said on Fareed Zakaria GPS.
‘He wants an America that is divided from within, which is really the only way that anybody will ever take us down — If we turn on each other,’ Clinton assessed. ‘He was shrewd in his analysis that I would have been much more willing to stand up and speak out.’
Trump brought up his former opponent Hillary Clinton, who yesterday claimed that Vladimir Putin wanted to help him an hurt her.
Vladimir Putin didn’t necessarially know Trump but ‘he had some familiarity, maybe not personally but through proxies with Trump and with Trump’s mindset, which is very positive toward authoritarian behavior,’ she claimed.
‘I think he made a smart bet from his perspective,’ she told Zakaria on CNN.
Trump has denied contact with Putin or any of his proxies in his bid for the president.
He said at a press conference over the summer that he’d be willing to tell that to the special counsel in an interview.
Reports have recently indicated that Trump’s legal team may follow his lead and offer an interview to Mueller to speed up the pace of the case.
Trump did not say today whether such an interview was on the table.