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Trump Delivers Nearly 200-Word Diatribe About Mueller Investigation, Says Nothing Much

The president is trying (and failing?) to come to grips with the results of the yet-to-be released Mueller probe.

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It’s always interesting to me because a deputy, that didn’t get any votes, appoints a man that didn’t get any votes, he’s going to write a report on me. I had one of the greatest election victories in history. Would you say that’s true? They came from the valleys, they came from the rivers, they came from the cities, they came from all over, they voted in one of the greatest elections in the history of our country, and now I have a man, because we have an attorney general who — nobody can even believe he didn’t tell me, but he recused himself — so I have a man who is a deputy who I don’t know, who I didn’t know at all, and he appoints a man who had just left my office, I didn’t give him the job at the FBI, [James] Comey’s his best friend, but listen, you know it better than anybody, you’ve been very fair in this, but listen, I have a deputy, appoints a man to write a report on me, to make a determination on my presidency? People will not stand for it.

— President Donald Trump, in a rambling interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, where he complains about the fact that neither Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein nor special counsel Robert Mueller were elected, and yet they will be able to judge whether his actions abided with the law.

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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