President Donald Trump says he is bothered by special counsel Robert Mueller’s relationship with ex-FBI Director James Comey, The Hill reads.
Trump tells “Fox and Friends” in an interview to be broadcast Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller is “very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome.”
The former FBI chief was overseeing the investigation until Trump fired him last month. Asked whether Mueller should step down from the investigation because of his friendship with Comey, Trump says, “We’re going to have to see.”
The President told Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt in the interview that he was concerned that Mueller had hired attorneys that previously donated to Democrats, and doubled down on claims that there was no collusion between himself and Russia during the 2016 election.
“There’s been no collusion, no obstruction and virtually everybody agrees to that,” Trump says.
“So we’ll have to see. I can say that the people that’ve been hired [by Mueller] were all Hillary Clinton supporters,” he further adds.
Trump and his allies have been working to discredit Mueller for weeks. Last Sunday, Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow hit the Sunday news shows to attack Mueller and defend Trump, saying that the president is not under investigation.
“There has been no notification from the special counsel’s office that the president is under investigation,” Sekulow said Sunday.
“I can’t imagine a scenario where the president would not be aware of it.”
Mueller was appointed following Comey’s abrupt firing by Trump last month, and is now heading up the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election.
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