Mueller’s Expanding Probe Raises Stakes for Trump Presidency
- Trump decries ‘witch hunt’ led by ‘bad and conflicted people’
- Senate Intelligence panel hosts DNI Coats behind closed doors
Mueller's Expanded Probe Eyes Trump on Flynn
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s move to investigate whether Donald Trump sought to get the FBI to back off from a probe of his former national security adviser has angered the president and raised the stakes in the inquiry of Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
“They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice,” Trump said on Twitter Thursday morning. He decried a “witch hunt” that he said is being “led by some very bad and conflicted people!”