Donald Trump’s string of Wednesday morning tweets are like a “greatest hits” of his false claims about Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections with Russia. Complaints about Peter Strzok, who was removed from the investigation more than a year ago? In there. The “Angry Democrats,” whose count Trump has recently raised from 13 to 17, were all present and accounted for. But what’s also present in Trump’s morning tirade is an even greater attack on special counsel Robert Mueller and how “his dirty work” is a “disgrace to USA.”
Also included in Trump’s tweets is a call to Attorney General Jefferson Sessions to “stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further.” It’s the most direct call for Sessions to end the investigation in months, and stacked on top of the other components of Trump’s tweets, which contain a laundry list of his lies about the investigation, it strikes an ominous chord.
Interesting fact: Trump spends two tweets attacking Peter Strzok and claims that “It won’t go into a Mueller Report because Mueller is going to protect these guys.” But the truth is that Strzok only worked for Mueller for a little over one month before being removed from the investigation in July 2017. On the other hand, Trump throws in a tweet about Paul Manafort saying “He worked for me for a very short time.” Manafort had an official role on the Trump campaign for five months, including taking the campaign through critical primaries and planning the RNC.