President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that Democrats are no longer talking 'impeachment' now that a summary of the Mueller report is out.
He also suggested that investigation into his campaign was a conspiracy ordered by Barack Obama's administration.
'I think it went very high up. I think what happened is a disgrace. I don't believe our country should allow this ever to happen again. This will never happen again. We can never let it ever happen again,' he told reporters. 'It went very high up, and it started fairly low, but with instructions from the high up. '
Asked if it went all the way up to the West Wing of the Obama White House in his opinion, Trump told a reporter, 'I don’t want to say that, but I think you know the answer.'
President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that Democrats are no longer talking 'impeachment' now that a summary of the Mueller report is out
He also suggested that investigation into his campaign was a conspiracy ordered by Barack Obama's administration
The president took a victory lap on Capitol Hill, as he attended a GOP luncheon in advance of a vote in the Senate on the Green New Deal.
Earlier on Tuesday he said the investigation was a 'disgrace' and it 'should never have been started' as he ribbed Democrats for 'walking back' their claims that he almost certainly colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a freshman Democrat from Michigan, was meanwhile circulating a resolution formally calling for an investigation into potential crimes he may have committed before and after he took office.
Trump wrote her request off as an anomaly as he briefly talked to reporters on his way into the luncheon.
'I don’t think they’re talking about impeachment. We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had. Our country is in incredible shape,' he said. 'They and others created a fraud on our country with this ridiculous witch hunt, where it proven very strongly, no collusion, no obstruction, no nothing.'
The Department of Justice has not released the special counsel's report yet, but a four-page letter from Trump's attorney general indicated that the special counsel found no evidence to support allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also declined to bring charges against or recommend criminal prosecution of the president.
Trump said Tuesday, before he spoke to senators, 'The Mueller report was great. It could not have been better. It said, "no obstruction, no collusion," it could not have been better.'
His White House likewise claimed that Trump has 'nothing to hide' and continues to support the release of the confidential report.
His White House meanwhile claimed that Trump has 'nothing to hide,' and continues to support the release of the special counsel's final report
His White House meanwhile claimed that Trump has 'nothing to hide' and continues to support the release of Robert Mueller's report
A White House official told DailyMail.com that he will be 'providing an update on Administration's priorities to the Republican conference.'
He specifically wants to discuss drug pricing and infrastructure with senators, senior adviser Kellyanne Conway told reporters later, calling them areas with the potential for bipartisan support.
She said the White House is looking forward to a policy discussion and Democrats must decide if they want to continue investigating the president or get on board.
At the same time, the president's top advisers suggested that current and former DOJ officials should be hauled before Congress to testify about their flawed belief that Trump and his associates may have meddled in the election and orchestrated a presidential-level cover-up.
'Let's see how this all started. Did we have people in fact at the top levels of the DOJ and the FBI trying to sit on the scales of justice to try and prevent Donald Trump from being elected president and after he was elected president trying to prevent him from taking office?' she said. 'Getting that insurance policy, making fun of his voters, sprinkling their venom all over town, unmasking Mike Flynn.
'Let's see what led to the FISA warrant application being approved, let's get to the bottom of that phony dossier that got this party started, the DNC and Hillary Clinton funding it because I'll tell you those people at the DOJ and the FBI at the time they have besmirched the good reputations and integrity of the 25 to 35,000 men and women who work in that department and do their jobs honorably,' Conway said on Fox News.
Trump claimed his enemies had committee 'evil' acts on Monday, calling some of their actions 'treasonous' and demanding accountability for people who promoted the now-disproven idea that he colluded with Russians to steal his election victory.
Trump included former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, saying they should be forced to testify about the special counsel probe.
'There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things, I would say treasonous things against our country,' Trump said, claiming that 'they lied to Congress, and many of them you know who they are. They've done so many evil things.'
As the dust settled Monday on the lengthy Russia probe's final curtain-closing, other Republicans in Washington swung from defense to offense too, calling for new deep-dives into a cast of characters who started and fueled the lengthy Russia-conspiracy chase.
A day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller exonerated President Trump from claims that he colluded with the Kremlin, his spokespersons, lawyers and congressional allies blanketed the airwaves and the Internet with demands for Obama administration officials and Justice Department insiders to face their own scrutiny.
'If we're all serious about getting to the truth and not just scoring political points,' a senior White House official told DailyMail.com on Monday, 'you really have to be willing to investigate the investigators after something this far-reaching falls apart.'
President Donald Trump accused his enemies of 'evil' acts on Monday and demanded they be held accountable
Trump suggested former FBI director James Comey and ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be forced to testify on the special counsel probe. He indicated he doesn't mean Robert Mueller, who acted honorably
The president conceded Monday that he doesn't believe Mueller personally acted in bad faith, despite nearly two years of demonizing the special counsel as the ringmaster of a 'witch hunt' who was hobbled by conflicts of interest.
He told a reporter asking if Mueller acted honorably, 'Yes he did.'
The White House claimed Monday that the president 'wants full transparency' in the investigation's wake and would be 'more than happy' to see the attorney general release Mueller's entire report.
'I don't think the president has any problem with it,' press secretary Sarah Sanders said on the 'Today' show. 'He's more than happy for any of this stuff to come out because he knows exactly what did and what didn't happen and now frankly the rest of America knows.'
Asked by DailyMail.com if the White House's call for transparency extends to President Trump's written answers to the special counsel's questions, Sanders said he would leave the decision to Attorney General William Barr.
She said Trump has 'been clear about what he thinks should take place' but has said he will let Barr make his own determination. 'At the same time, we have to protect the office of the presidency,' she said.
Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway claimed that Trump's answers are not 'particularly relevant' as she answered the same question.
'Because he was responding to questions that it turns out weren't particularly relevant or important to anything,' she said. 'There's no collusion, no obstructive conduct, no conspiracy, no indictments, nobody named Trump indicted.'
The White House claimed Monday that the president 'wants full transparency' in the special counsel investigation and would be 'more than happy' to see the attorney general release Robert Mueller's entire report
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway blitzed the morning shows on Monday. They spoke to White House reporters, as well
Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway claimed that Trump's answers are not 'particularly relevant' as she answered a question from DailyMail.com
Conway said during a Fox News interview that Justice Department disclosures should include everything that led to the intrusive surveillance warrants obtained to spy on Trump associates before and after the 2016 election.
'Let's see everything that attended to the FISA warrant. Let's see all the communications happening at the top levels of the FBI during the Obama Administration, and getting that 'insurance policy,' deriding the Trump voters and the rest of us as filthy Walmart shoppers and all of the other slights, all the snark and bark from the elitist intellectual snobs. Let's see it. Let's let it all hang out,' she said.
But that enthusiasm, she said, does not extend to releasing the written answers that the president sent the special counsel in lieu of a face-to-face grilling.
'That is really up to the attorney general,' she said. 'You can't just abracadabra your way into what's into the report.'
She blasted the probe as a 'fishing expedition' and others like it as 'hoaxes and witch hunts.'
Jay Sekulow, an attorney for the president, said Monday that it would be 'very inappropriate' for DOJ to release 'confidential' communications between the president and Mueller.
'That would not be a position that I would want, to just make a statement where we would release confidential communications that took place between the President of the United States and the Department of Justice or the special counsel's office,' Sekulow told CNN Monday morning on 'New Day.'
Democrats in Congress are demanding to examine the entire Mueller report and his underlying evidence, and all related documents. That would include the president's written responses to questions from the special counsel.
Barr has committed only to releasing as much as he can, consistent with federal law.
Jay Sekulow, an attorney for the president, said Monday that it would be 'very inappropriate' for DOJ to release 'confidential' communications between the president and Mueller
Conway suggested that some Democrats could come to regret their calls for transparency if Mueller uncovered evidence that their leaks to reporters drove some of the frenzy related to claims Trump obstructed justice.
'Let's not forget where that came from. That came from leaks and accusations, I believe that started with Jim Comey, leaking to lots of folks, saying that he specifically leaked information hoping that it would draw an investigation,' she cautioned.
'Maybe we'll have to hear from him again,' Conway taunted. 'Maybe he should go get a lawyer. Maybe he should be brought in. Maybe he should be asked what happened again, under oath.'
Sanders said the White House is confident that Barr, who she insisted has not given the White House any lead time on his decisions, will do the right thing for the country.
'This attorney general is going to make the best decision for America,' she said on Fox News.
Trump said last week that he wants the report to come out. He's seen here talking to reporters on the tarmac on Sunday evening before a flight back to D.C.
She also said Comey and other Obama administration officials should be held to a high standard.
That includes 'any of the people that were involved in the process of trying to take down the president,' she told reporters.
'The fact that they spent two years trying to delegitimize the president's victory in 2016 is disgusting, and there are a lot of people that should answer questions.'
'If Congress is so gung-ho to call people up to the Hill, the list I would start with are Comey, Clapper, Brennan and other people in the FBI who perpetuated this absurd lie and this absurd idea that the President of the United States was somehow a foreign agent and colluding with another government.'
'Let's not forget that all of this interference in the election took place under the Obama administration. They knew about it, and they did nothing to stop it,' Sanders said.
President Donald Trump's White House swung into offense mode on Monday after Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no campaign collusion with Russians; a senior official said that 'if we're all serious about getting to the truth and not just scoring political points, you really have to be willing to investigate the investigators'
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters that he will use her position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to probe who was responsible for advancing the Trump-Russia narrative
Conway raised eyebrows in her Fox News interview on Monday by calling for Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to resign.
And James Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan, Loretta Lynch, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and other current and former government officials went from heroes to potential villains in the blink of a political news cycle when South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham spoke to the press.
Graham vowed in a press conference that he would use his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee to peel apart the layers of the 22-month Mueller probe and what preceded it.
That, he said, includes the uncorroborated, Democrat-funded dossier of anti-Trump research that led the Justice Department to dig into alleged Trump-Russia ties, and the DOJ's use of its contents to get a surveillance warrant on Trump a campaign adviser.
'The FISA warrant issued against Carter Page based on a dossier prepared by Christopher Steele is at a minimum disturbing,' said Graham, a staunch Trump ally. 'Whether or not it's illegal, I don't yet know, so I'm going to get answers to this.'
'If no one else cares, it seems to me Republicans do, and that's sad … 'f the shoe were on the other foot it would be front page news all over the world,' he said.
Graham also vowed to dig into an infamous June 2016 airport tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Lynch, then President Barack Obama's attorney general.
Clinton and Lynch have both denied discussing the counterintelligence investigation that targeted Hillary Clinton at the time. But then-FBI Director Comey announced just a week later that he had refused to recommend criminally prosecuting Mrs. Clinton for mishandling classified information on her private email server.
The mood in Washington was summed up Monday by an editorial written 430 miles away and published in the Boston Herald.
'The Mueller report is in. The president is vindicated. Now it is time to investigate the investigators,' the editorial read.
'Democrats and the media will show little interest in such an investigation but that is of no matter. History will outlive the activists on CNN and it is our responsibility to shed light on the motives behind the machinations to undermine a duly elected president.'
Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney to Donald Trump, said Monday that he wants to know who was responsible for funding and fueling a conspiracy theory about the president colluding with Russians to swing the 2016 election
House speaker Nancy Pelosi's office responded Monday afternoon to Conway's demand that Schiff should resign.
'Chairman Schiff has done an outstanding job and that's the reason why he's subject to these ridiculous attacks,' spokeswoman Ashley Etienne said in a statement.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Trump backer whose daughter is the president's White House press secretary, laid out a theory that could dominate headlines for months.
'There WAS a CONSPIRACY, a COVER-UP, and attempted COUP,' he tweeted.
'It was done by Comey, McCabe, Ohr, Clapper, Brennan, Rice, Strzok, Page, Yates, et al. None of those ppl are in @realDonaldTrump world. Not ONE. Hold them accountable for abuse of power. No one should be above the law.'
Obama-era officials who are playing defense against the White House after Mueller ruled out 'collusion'
Former FBI Director James Comey
Comey's conduct in both his handling of the Clinton email scandal and the Russia probe has already come under scrutiny by House Republican investigators. Now, with the delivery of the Mueller report, Comey could is facing a new pressure to explain his decisions. President Trump cited Comey's conduct in the email probe as the reason he fired the longtime FBI official early in his presidency. Comey had himself announced in July 2016 the decision not to prosecute Clinton, even as he chided her for carelessness in her emails. After his firing, Comey delivered riveting testimony to Congress about what he took as pressure from Trump to ease off prosecution of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn. Now, Judiciary Chairman Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina wants to pursue the matter further. 'Why did he take over the investigation in July, make a statement that she did a lot of bad things but not quite a crime. That did affect this election,' said Graham on Monday.
Former CIA Director John Brennan
Brennan cast off his normally tight-lipped persona to become one of President Trump's fiercest critics after he ended his tenure. In one example, he retweeted Trump in January, writing: 'Your cabal of unprincipled, unethical, dishonest, and sycophantic cronies is being methodically brought to justice. We all know where this trail leads. If your utter incompetence is not enough to run you out of office, your increasingly obvious political corruption surely will.' He predicted the Mueller probe could ensnare Trump family members. He predicted, incorrectly, that Mueller would bring additional indictments dealing with criminal conspiracy.
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok
Strzok was fired as one of the lead investigators on the Russia probe after his anti-Trump text exchanges with lover Lisa Page were revealed. After his texts were first uncovered during the course of an inspector general's probe, Strzok was transferred to another position in human resources. When he was fired, Trump tweeted: 'Agent Peter Strzok was just fired from the FBI — finally.' In one infamous August 2016 text to Page, Strzok wrote about Page's apparent contention in a meeting that there was 'no way' Trump would get elected. 'It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40,' he said. Republicans pointed to the email as signal of partisan origins of the probe, and cast the comment as a plan to keep Trump from becoming president. Strzok denied that interpretation, and defenders noted Strzok could have just been defending the need to open a counterintelligence probe even of someone unlikely to win.
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page
Page was a high-level FBI lawyer who advised former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Like Strzok, she worked on both the Hillary Clinton email probe and the Russia probe. She resigned her post amid the inquiry into messages she exchanged with Strzok. In one piece of newly-revealed information, she told Congress the Obama Justice Department told investigators not to charge Clinton with gross negligence over her emails. 'We neither had sufficient evidence to charge gross negligence, nor had it ever been done, because the Department viewed it as constitutionally vague' Page told a joint committee investigating the prosecutorial decisions. She said investigators had studied it because there was 'potential' for the charge.
Former senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr
Ohr came under scrutiny for his role in the transmission of information from the Steele dossier to the FBI. Ohr is a senior Justice Department official who had prior professional contacts going back years with former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Steele famously authored what became known as the dossier about Russia contacts to Trump officials as well as unproven salacious allegations about the candidate. Ohr had a specialty that focused on organized and international crime. In addition, Ohr testified that he took additional information that was gathered by his wife, Nellie Ohr, who worked for Fusion GPS political intelligence firm. He told investigators she gave him a memory stick containing information she gathered on Russian figures. Trump has regularly attacked Ohr as a 'disgrace' on Twitter.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
Clapper had early insights into the origins of the Russia probe. When he left office after the Obama administration, he took a job as a CNN commentator, and became a fierce critic of President Trump's. Clapper, along with Brennan and others, who ended up on a list the White House compiled of officials whose security clearances would be revoked. The White House said it was to target people who made 'baseless' accusations or had 'monetized' their public service. 'I think this is just a very, very petty thing to do,' Clapper said afterward. GOP critics blasted his testimony had given to Congress about warrantless surveillance, claiming he may have perjured himself. Clapper denied at a 2013 Senate hearing that the NSA was not 'wittingly' collecting information on millions of Americans. 'No, sir … Not wittingly,' Clapper responded.
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani demanded on 'Fox & Friends' to know exactly who was responsible for promoting the 'cockamamie' theory that the president conspired with Russians to steal the 2016 election and then tried to obstruct a federal investigation into his actions.
'If there was no evidence of collusion – three investigations, no evidence of collusion – who made it up? It had to come from somewhere. It just didn't come out of thin air,' Giuliani fumed.
'I want to know who did it, who paid for it, who fueled it. Because the person who did it, and the group that did it, knows it's untrue – because they invented it.'
Giuliani said the president's adversaries, the same group that applied pressure inside the Justice Department, will soon have a reckoning.
In an editorial Monday, The Wall Street Journal concluded that 'someone may have conned the FBI into one of the great dirty tricks in American political history.'
'Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!' Giuliani responded to a live reading of that line. 'And you're going to find out, believe me, who it was.'
It's Graham who may be best positioned to break Washington's inertia and launch an investigation designed as a counterweight to House Democrats' efforts to keep the themes of Mueller's probe alive.
Anti-Trump collusion among Justice Department insiders the president inherited in 2017 has 'pretty much been swept under the rug except by a few Republicans,' Graham said. 'Those days are over.'
'What role did the dossier play?' he asked, saying he wants to know it if was 'the primary source' that launched the Justice Department's Russia-related intelligence-gathering scramble.
'I want to know the role Comey played in this,' he declared.
Graham had sent a warning to the FBI chief who Trump fired in May 2017, after Comey tweeted a photo of himself looking up at a forest full of tall trees and captioned the picture: 'So many questions.'
'Could not agree more,' Graham replied. 'See you soon.'
'I was sort of like, 'What was the whole forest thing about?'' he said Monday.
In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Council, Vice President Mike Pence stayed away from talk of recriminations in a more high-minded victory lap -- but did throw a jab over 'reckless accusations by many Democrats and members of the media.'
'Make no mistake about it, my fellow Americans, this was a total vindication of the President of the United States and our campaign, and it should be welcomed by every American,' he said.
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Main photo article President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that Democrats are no longer talking ‘impeachment’ now that a summary of the Mueller report is out.
He also suggested that investigation into his campaign was a conspiracy ordered by Barack Obama’s administration.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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