President Donald Trump has strongly criticized his Justice Department, his Cabinet members and his former political opponents using scorching remarks Monday evening, CNBC informed.
The comments were made at a round-table meeting at the White House which was set to discuss the administration’s reaction to a suspected chemical weapons attack performed by the Syrian government on its own people.
However, Trump used the time with the press before the meeting to put focus on criticizing the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“It’s a disgraceful situation, it’s a total witch hunt,” Trump stated, condemning recent reports that the FBI searched the office and residence of Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, after receiving a referral from the special counsel.
“I have this witch hunt constantly going on for 12 months now,” Trump said. “It’s frankly a real disgrace. It’s an attack on our country in a true sense.”
Trump also did not forget to criticize his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who became a regular target of the President’s anger in public and private after he recused himself from the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Sessions’ command of the special counsel was ceded to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
“The attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this,” Trump said about Sessions’ move. Had Sessions let Trump know he was planning to recuse himself over failing to report contacts with a Russian ambassador in congressional testimony, “we would have used a — put a different attorney general in.”
Asked if he would fire Mueller, Trump did not directly answer affirmatively but said that the investigation is a “disgrace.”
“Many people have said, ‘You should fire him.’ Again, they found nothing,” Trump said of Mueller and his team.
The White House officials were not immediately available for response to CNBC’s request for comment.
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