Trump Defies Aides, Tweets About Investigation Story

'Single Greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history'
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 15, 2017 8:28 AM CDT
Trump Denounces 'Single Greatest WITCH HUNT'
President Trump blames 'bad and conflicted people' for the investigation.   (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

When the Washington Post reported its potential bombshell on Wednesday—that a special prosecutor is looking into whether President Trump obstructed justice—the newspaper noted that aides were urging the president not to comment about the development on Twitter. Those requests didn't work: Trump fired off two tweets Thursday morning denouncing the "phony story," reports Politico. "You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history - led by some very bad and conflicted people!" tweeted Trump, who didn't specify the people he was talking about.

Trump also suggested that the obstruction development came about because his critics hit a dead end trying to prove his campaign worked with Moscow. "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," he wrote. The Post, and later the New York Times, say that special prosecutor Robert Mueller wants to interview three key figures to try to figure out whether Trump improperly sought their help to get James Comey to drop the FBI's investigation of Michael Flynn. They are Dan Coats, director of national intelligence; Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency; and Richard Ledgett, former NSA deputy director. (More President Trump stories.)

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