President Trump added fuel to his claims that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe was designed to undermine his presidency
President Donald Trump on Friday added fuel to his claims that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe was designed to undermine his presidency with a tweet musing why intelligence officials did not inform him they were investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn before his White House tenure.
“It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge,” Trump said in aFriday. “It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change?”
It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge. It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change?Documents unsealed Thursday ordered the government to provide a public transcript of a voicemail left for Flynn's lawyer by one of Trump’s attorneys in 2017, which Mueller referenced in his report.
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