Trump views the attacks as a way to go on offense ahead of his 2020 reelection race and to portray Democrats as focused more on impeaching and tearing him down than on the nation’s best interests.
In the roughly 10 days since the redacted report was published, Trump has taken repeated jabs at the special counsel and his team on Twitter, while stonewalling Democrats seeking to delve further into Mueller’s findings.
Trump on Monday tweeted that Mueller was “a great HERO to the Radical Left Democrats” but that the party is abandoning him because of the report’s core findings.
“We had 18 people that were Trump haters; that includes Mr. Mueller. He was a Trump hater,” Trump said Friday as he departed the White House for a speech to the National Rifle Association.
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