Donald Trump accused special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of “screaming and shouting” at people and “threatening” them in an effort to find evidence that Trump colluded with Russia.
Trump, who had been silent about Mueller on Twitter for the last few weeks and was thought to be preparing written answers to his team, said investigation is now a “total mess.”
“The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess,” Trump said Twitter. “They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and don’t care how many lives the ruin.”
The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and don’t…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2018 [1]
Trump said the people running the investigation completely ignore the crimes of Democrats and are only interested in the “witch hunt” against the Trump administration.
“These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side,” Trump continued in a second tweet. “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!”
….care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2018 [2]
Mueller, a Republican, served under President Barack Obama for four years. He also served under President George W. Bush for eight, and has earned wide bipartisan praise from Trump acolytes like Newt Gingrich.
The Mueller investigation has been quiet since a summer announcement of more than a dozen indictments of Russian officials who are alleged to have interfered in the 2016 General Election. Since being appointed in Spring of 2017, Mueller’s office has been looking into whether the Trump campaign colluded with these efforts.
Critics have occasionally noticed that Trump has often employed the old debate trick of “the best defense is a good offense.” Or, as Sigmund Freud called it, “projection,” in which the human ego defends itself against negative qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.
Twitter thought the same:
This tweet by @realDonaldTrump [3] leads me to think that more indictments are coming soon.
Also, it would be highly inappropriate for Trump to be told of any inner workings of the Special Counsel probe when he and his friends & family are under investigation.#ThursdayThoughts [4] https://t.co/2bySSshVL4 [5]
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 15, 2018 [6]
Trump is setting the stage for firing Mueller in an attempt to end the criminal investigation into his own conduct. https://t.co/K9HQty7O94 [7]
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 15, 2018 [8]
This is some next level projection, folks. https://t.co/drdf94dQ6v [9]
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) November 15, 2018 [10]
Sounds like somebody is still scared.
And @SenateGOP [11] should be ashamed of themselves for blocking legislation that would protect Robert Muller from the likes of Trump or a Whittaker that Trump appointments to obstruct him.
This is the so called party of "Law & Order" mind you. https://t.co/dNDgkDbkDQ [12]
— Mohammed (Mr. Kurd) (@mhesen09) November 15, 2018 [13]