US President Donald Trump on Thursday blasted the probe into
whether his team colluded with Russia to tilt the 2016 election in his favour
as the "greatest witch hunt" in US history.
His comment on Twitter came after former FBI chief Robert
Mueller was appointed special counsel with sweeping powers to head the probe.
"This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician
in American history!" Trump wrote.
Also via Twitter, Trump accused former president Barack
Obama and his 2016 rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, of unspecified
"illegal acts."
"With all of the illegal acts that took place in the
Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special councel appointed!" he wrote.
Trump has denied any links to Moscow, but the appointment of
a special counsel dramatically raises the stakes in a crisis threatening to
paralyse his presidency.
The Republican leader, who has struggled to shake off
suspicions that Russia helped put him in the White House, has been accused of
seeking to block the investigation by firing FBI chief James Comey.
Mueller's appointment has come as Trump fends off reports he
shared US secrets with Russian officials in the Oval Office, and had asked
Comey to drop his investigation into former Trump national security adviser
Michael Flynn.
Source:CNN
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