Donald Trump Calls Investigation ‘Single Greatest Witch Hunt’ in U.S. History


Donald Trump is fighting back against what he described as the “greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history” this week. During a press conference, the president denied asking James Comey to end investigations into Michael Flynn and brushed off whispers of impeachment.

Revelations that Comey, whom Trump abruptly fired last week, wrote memos of his past meetings with Trump–including one at which the president apparently asked him to stop an investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn – roiled Washington politics this week. On Wednesday, one day after the existence of the memos went public, the Justice Department appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the the agency’s Russia investigation.

Asked if he did indeed press Comey to stop investigating Flynn, Trump cut off the reporter, saying only: “No, no — next question.”

He also curtly dismissed Washington chatter about the prospect of impeachment for possible obstruction of justice, calling it “totally ridiculous – everybody thinks so.”

Trump, in his first live, televised comments about both reports of the Comey memos and Mueller’s appointment, said “I respect the move” to appoint a special counsel for the Russia investigation.

Still, he insisted “the entire thing has been a witch hunt” that has divided the country and served as a distraction for his administration’s agenda. “We have to get back to running this country really, really well,” Trump said at the news conference after meetings with President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia

Earlier in the day, Trump sent a series of tweets downplaying to controversy and attacking the proponents of the attack:

If Trump is worried, he certainly isn’t showing it. He remains confident that the investigation will clear his name and allow the nation to move on from this Democrat-led attack.

Source: USA Today



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