Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani continued to rage against Robert Mueller's team on Friday, claiming prosecutors would still be investigating the president if it were up to them.
Giuliani said they'd like to keep searching for evidence that Trump obstructed justice, and that's why they declined to exonerate him in their final report.
'They’d still be investigating it if they could. They just believe he’s bad and there must be something bad about him,' he said on 'Fox & Friends. 'Just think of how warped what you just read to me is, read it again.'
President Trump called it the 'Crazy Mueller Report' on Friday morning and insisted that parts of hit were 'fabricated' and 'total bullsh*t' and he never made embarrassing statements that were attributed to him.
According to the report, Trump claimed he was 'f**ed' when he learned of Robert Mueller's appoint. He declared it would be the 'end of my presidency,' said Jody Hunt, the chief of staff to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Hunt wrote contemporaneous notes that he shared with the special counsel on Trump's reaction to Mueller's hiring in the moments after Sessions informed the president that an independent investigator had been announced.
The White House immediately sought to downplay Hunt's knowledge of the events, calling him somebody who'd been in the building 'sparingly over the last couple of years.'
Trump took aim at him Friday in a tweet that told followers to 'watch out' for sources who produce 'so-called "notes"' that were not known to exist before now.
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President Trump went after the 'Crazy Mueller Report' on Friday morning, insisting that parts of hit were 'fabricated' and 'total bullsh*t' and he never made embarrassing statements that were attributed to him
Yesterday, the president denied that he attempted to have Mueller fired on multiple occasions.
'I had the right to end the whole Witch Hunt if I wanted. I could have fired everyone, including Mueller, if I wanted. I chose not to. I had the RIGHT to use Executive Privilege. I didn’t!'
The president repeatedly said Thursday that he was having a 'good day' after the redacted Mueller report dropped.
'It was called, no collusion, no obstruction,' he said at a White House event. 'There never was, by the way, and there never will be.'
As the day wore on his comments turned nastier, though, and on Friday he was denying that certain events in the Mueller report ever occurred.
Trump seemed to be refuting Jody Hunt's notes in his tweets. Hunt was chief of staff to the AG at the time of Mueller's appointment
'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,' he said.
'Because I never agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the “Report” about me, some of which are total bullsh*t & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad).'
Trump seemed to be refuting Hunt's note-taking in the report — and attacking Mueller as an 'Angry Democrat' who was out to get him.
The president had referred to the special counsel's 17 prosecutors during a months-long pressure campaign. His claim was based on their ties to Hillary Clinton, through donations to her or their known party affiliations.
He ticked the count up to 18 on Friday morning in the tweet that suggested he was lumping in Mueller, last known to be a Republican, with the former FBI director's investigators.
After Attorney General William Barr sent a letter to Congress revealing Mueller's conclusion that neither the president nor his campaign had colluded with Russia to interfere in the election, Trump acknowledged that the special counsel was an honorable person.
Trump appeared to back track on Friday as he refuted the section of the report that dealt with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's May 2017 call to Sessions, who'd recused himself from the Russia probe, to say he'd appointed a special counsel.
At the White House on Thursday, presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway also tried to deflate Hunt's claims that Trump said he was 'f**ed' and likely to be removed from office
'This was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened,' he wrote in am open-ended tweet that used profanity to claim that he never used profanity to describe the special counsel appointment.
At the White House on Thursday,
