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TRUMP TWEET-STORM: Takes Aim At Mueller Team’s ‘Conflicts Of Interest’ As Major Filings Loom


President Trump launched a broadside early Friday at Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s entire team of investigators ahead of major filings in the Russia probe, alleging a slew of internal “conflicts of interest” and suggesting all those controversies should be included in the final report.

After maintaining a relatively low profile on social media amid this week’s services for the late President George H.W. Bush, Trump roared back into the Russia probe debate with a blistering battery of pre-dawn tweets.

“Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn’t the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of ‘legal’ at the corrupt Clinton Foundation?” Trump tweeted, again calling the probe a “total Witch Hunt.”

Meanwhile, “the woman” Trump claims is overseeing the potential prosecution of Corsi, an ally of GOP political operative Roger Stone, is likely Jeannie Rhee, a federal prosecutor on Mueller’s team. Rhee is a former partner at WilmerHale—the high-profile law firm where Mueller worked prior to taking on the special counsel role. Fox News reported earlier this year that Rhee had represented the Clinton Foundation in 2015 in a racketeering suit brought by conservative legal activist group Freedom Watch in 2015. Rhee also represented former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a lawsuit seeking access to her private emails.

The president’s tweets come as Mueller faces a court-imposed Friday deadline to file potentially revealing memos outlining how former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort allegedly broke his cooperation agreements with the government, as well as how his former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen should be punished for lying to Congress in 2017 about an abandoned Trump real estate project in Russia. The Cohen charge, though, was part of a newly announced plea deal, and the ex-Trump lawyer is said to be cooperating extensively with Mueller.

(AP)



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