The President’s press secretary admitted to misleading reporters about the rationale for former FBI Director James Comey’s firing. His former national security adviser revealed Trump asked him to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails. The White House’s top lawyer characterized Trump’s demands as “crazy shit.”
Whether President Trump is embarrassed or feeling betrayed, he’s shifted his tone on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
Just after the redacted report was released on Thursday, President Trump responded with a befuddling meme, claiming there was “no collusion, no obstruction.” Since Attorney General Bill Barr gave Congress his assessment of the report, Trump has been claiming legal vindication and “total exoneration.”
But on Friday, Trump changed his tune, suggesting all of the statements made about him in the “Crazy Mueller Report” are “fabricated and totally untrue” and “total bullshit,” despite the fact that all the witnesses’ claims were made under penalty of perjury.
Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue. Watch out for people that take so-called “notes,” when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019
…agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the “Report” about me, some of which are total bullshit & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad). This was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened, a…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019
