It’s all to stop his tax plan.
President Trump suggested reports of an impending arrest in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s months-long Russia probe — which he took over in May — are a bid to halt the momentum in the Republican tax reform effort.
“All of this “Russia” talk right when the Republicans are making their big push for historic Tax Cuts & Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT!” Trump tweeted Sunday morning.
Multiple outlets reported over the weekend that someone under investigation would be arrested as soon as Monday — the first person in the sweeping probe.
Meanwhile Trump and the Republican-held Congress have been pushing a massive tax reform program, that’s been met with some criticism surrounding how it might impact 401(k) retirement programs.
Mueller’s team is looking at how deeply Russia influenced last year’s election, namely whether members of the Trump campaign worked in tandem with Moscow.
U.S. intelligence agencies have agreed Russia tried to influence last year’s election.
Trump has called the allegations “phony” and a “witch hunt,” and on Sunday claimed a double standard when it came to alleged wrongdoings by Hillary Clinton, whom he defeated nearly a year ago.
He brought up recent reports that the Clinton campaign helped fund a notorious dossier about Trump, as well as a uranium deal with Russia he’s tried tying to Clinton and her deleted emails on a private server.
“Instead they look at phony Trump/Russia,…….”collusion,” which doesn’t exist. The Dems are using this terrible (and bad for our country) Witch Hunt for evil politics, but the R’s……are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING!” Trump wrote in a series of tweets.
His legal team has been reportedly searching for ways to have Mueller removed from the probe over conflicts of interest.
Mueller, FBI director from 2001 to 2013, was hired in May, much to the chagrin of Trump — who publically fumed after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation last March. Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on May 9 led Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to then recuse himself, and tap Mueller for the job.
