Trump on Sunday called for
Mueller to be barred from testifying to Congress -- in a hearing that
could come as soon as May 15 -- as his anxiety exploded in a double
barreled tweet that reversed a position expressed only two days earlier.
"After
spending more than $35,000,000 over a two year period, interviewing 500
people, using 18 Trump Hating Angry Democrats & 49 FBI Agents - all
culminating in a more than 400 page Report showing NO COLLUSION - why
would the Democrats in Congress now need Robert Mueller to
testify.......," Trump wrote Sunday.
Trump
on Sunday called for Mueller to be barred from testifying to Congress
-- in a hearing that could come as soon as May 15 -- as his anxiety
exploded in a double barreled tweet that reversed a position expressed
only two days earlier.
"After
spending more than $35,000,000 over a two year period, interviewing 500
people, using 18 Trump Hating Angry Democrats & 49 FBI Agents - all
culminating in a more than 400 page Report showing NO COLLUSION - why
would the Democrats in Congress now need Robert Mueller to
testify.......," Trump wrote Sunday.
"Are they looking for a redo
because they hated seeing the strong NO COLLUSION conclusion? There was
no crime, except on the other side (incredibly not covered in the
Report), and NO OBSTRUCTION. Bob Mueller should not testify. No redos
for the Dems!"
The
President spent months shaping the aftermath of the Russia
investigation, so clearly he has no desire to see his narrative
contradicted by Mueller breaking his public silence.
That's especially the case since it emerged last week that Mueller wrote to William Barr to register concern about the attorney general's public presentation of his work — that clearly favored Trump — in a letter to Congress in March.
"Despite
the tremendous success that I have had as President, including perhaps
the greatest ECONOMY and most successful first two years of any
President in history, they have stollen two years of my (our) Presidency
(Collusion Delusion) that we will never be able to get back.....,"
Trump added in a later tweet.
Sunday's Twitter blasts came
as Trump's surreal capacity to ride out scandals and controversies that
would puncture the viability of any other politician faces tough new
tests.
On a day of judgment on Monday, Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen will report to a federal prison -- partly for conduct in which Trump was also implicated by prosecutors in New York.
The IRS has promised an answer on Monday for Treasury officials to respond to Democrats demanding tax returns that candidate Trump refused to reveal in a buckling of political norms.
Barr meanwhile has until 9 a.m. ET, to reply to a demand from a Democratic committee chairman to provide the un-redacted Mueller report or face the prospect of contempt proceedings.
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