In the face of rising pressure from Capitol Hill, the US Justice Department named former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in last year’s US election and possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
Trump said on Wednesday night that “a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know – there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity”.
In two Twitter posts yesterday, Trump made it clear he was unhappy with the latest development to roil his four-month-old administration.
“With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special councel appointed!” Trump wrote, misspelling the word counsel as he referred to former President Barack Obama and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“This is the single greatest witchhunt of a politician in American history!” The comments mirrored a speech by Trump on Wednesday, before Mueller’s appointment was announced, in which he said no politician in history had been treated worse or more unfairly.
The decision to move to an independent probe came a week after Trump abruptly fired FBI director James Comey, sparking a political firestorm as the agency was in the midst of an investigation into the Russia matter.
