In morning tweets, the president also seemingly acknowledged that Russia helped him get elected.
By John Wagner John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow May 30 at 8:42 AM President Trump attacked Robert S. Mueller III in a tweet Thursday, claiming that the special counsel would have brought charges against him if he had “ANYTHING” — a characterization directly at odds with what Mueller said in a public statement Wednesday.
— Donald J. Trump May 30, 2019 Trump’s comments came a day after Mueller said his office could neither clear nor accuse Trump of obstructing justice because of a long-standing Justice Department opinion that a sitting president cannot be charged with a federal crime. Shortly afterward, however, he told reporters at the White House that Russia had not helped him get elected.Speaking at the Justice Department on Wednesday, Mueller said his team found “insufficient evidence” to accuse Trump’s campaign of conspiring with Russia to tilt the 2016 election but emphasized that investigators did not make a similar determination on whether the president obstructed justice.
Hundreds of former federal prosecutors have opined that Mueller laid out sufficient evidence in his report to make an obstruction case against Trump. “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 accusation, and he shouldn’t fight back, he should just sit back and take it,” Trump wrote. “Could this be Obstruction? No, Mueller didn’t find Obstruction either. Presidential Harassment!”
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