Single greatest witch hunt in US History: Donald Trump reacts to appointment of special counsel to probe alleged Russian links
US President Donald Trump on Thursday took to Twitter to vent his anger against the special counsel that had been appointed to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential elections.
The US President posted two tweets, where he called the decision ‘the greatest political witch hunt in American history’.
With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special councel appointed!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2017
This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2017
Earlier, the U.S. Justice Department, in the face of rising pressure from Capitol Hill, named former FBI chief Robert Mueller on Wednesday as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
The move followed a week in which the White House was thrown into uproar after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Democrats and some of the president’s fellow Republicans had demanded an independent probe of whether Russia tried to sway the outcome of November’s election in favor of …read more
