President Donald Trump took to Twitter Saturday to attack the latest barrage of investigations and subpoena threats from his political opponents on Capitol Hill.
In his Saturday tweets, the president repeated claims that the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller was run by “13 Angry Trump hating Dems” who found no wrongdoing on his behalf after spending “$30 million” over the course of the investigation. He added that the 22-month long probe was a “total waste of time.”
His tweets come amid reports that some members of the special counsel’s team have been frustrated by the way U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr cast their findings in the summary he submitted to Congress late last month.
This week, the House Judiciary, Intelligence and Oversight committees have all ramped up probes into different aspects of Trump’s financial history, policy agenda and campaign, and Trump was hit Thursday with a formal request from Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) for his individual tax returns dating back to 2013.
The oversight escalation on Capitol Hill comes as Democrats continue to demand an unredacted copy of Mueller’s approximately 400-page report, which was provided to Attorney General Bill Barr more than two weeks ago. That request shows congressional Democrats “will never be satisfied,” Trump stated Saturday.
But as Barr’s self-imposed deadline to submit a copy of Mueller’s report to Capitol Hill fast approaches, Trump’s confidence in its “complete and total exoneration” of him has waned, according to one Republican close to the White House.
“He wouldn’t be bringing this up still if everything was hunky dory,” this person said, referring to the president’s tweets about Mueller and his team of federal investigators.
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Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to attack the latest barrage of investigations and subpoena threats from his political opponents on Capitol Hill https://t.co/ydE98zEkCz
— POLITICO (@politico) April 7, 2019
And yet he seemed to like them so much a few weeks ago. https://t.co/IdkdKEDZEc
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 7, 2019
.@DevinNunes + @POTUS like to tell @TheJusticeDept to investigate people they don't like, which implies a degree of confidence in our hard working law enforcement community.
But when investigations don't go the way they like, it's all deep state conspiracy.
What gives?— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) April 7, 2019
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