Donald Trump has termed the
appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as the Special Counsel to
probe Russia's role into last year's US Presidential election a political
witchhunt.
Mueller has been hired to
lead the ongoing FBI investigation into Russia's meddling into last year's US
Presidential Election and to find out whether some members of the campaign team
of Donald Trump were complicit in the whole Russian game that intended to
benefit Trump's campaign.
Accusing the Clinton campaign
and the Obama administration of indulging in illegal acts, Trump said,
"There was never a special counsel appointed to oversee the acts of his
Democrat predecessors". He has likened the appointment of the Special
Counsel with the "single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American
history".
"With all of the illegal
acts that took place in the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration,
there was never a special counsel appointed", Trump tweeted.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
With all of the illegal acts
that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was
never a special councel appointed!
5:09 PM - 18 May 2017
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
This is the single greatest
witch hunt of a politician in American history!
5:22 PM - 18 May 2017
After Donald Trump fired FBI
Director James Comey for the latter's handling of Russia's meddling role in the
US election and after Comey claimed that Trump had asked him to drop the probe
into his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's Russia connection,
the Trump Administration and the White House faced a barrage of questions.
Democrats were openly accusing Trump of trying to influence the FBI
investigation into Russia's meddling for his vested interests.
Under pressure, Deputy
Attorney General of the United States Rod J. Rosenstein announced Mueller's
appointment. Mueller headed the FBI from 2001 to 2013, a period that witnessed
a Republican President in George Bush and a Democrat President in Barack Obama.
Mueller has earned the reputation of being a hard taskmaster and an honest,
tough and resolute person. He is known as someone who doesn't toe the line and
instead stands for principles as he did in 2004 when he had threatened to
resign if the then US President George Bush went ahead with his domestic
surveillance plans without approval of the US Department of Justice.
Trump welcomed the
appointment, saying "A thorough investigation will confirm what we already
know. There was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity."
Robert Mueller, while accepting this responsibility, said he would discharge it
to the best of his ability.
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