As Mueller Files Criminal Charges, White House Accuses Democrats Of Collusion

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders talks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on October 24, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Oliver Contreras)(Sipa via AP Images)
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The morning after news broke that special counsel Robert Mueller had filed his first criminal charges in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential collusion with the Trump campaign, the White House Press Secretary took to social media to lob accusations at the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Specifically, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pointed to recent reports that a law firm tied to the DNC and the Clinton campaign took over funding opposition research into Trump’s connections with Russia, and did not disclose that connection until the Washington Post uncovered it earlier this week.

Huckabee Sanders did not mention that a conservative publication, the Washington Free Beacon, first contracted the opposition research firm that later produced the Steele Dossier.

As Mueller’s probe into Trump and his inner circle intensifies, other Republicans have similarly attempted to shift the public’s focus to Clinton and the Democratic Party.

In a telling verbal slip, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski called for an investigation into the “continued lies of the Clinton administration” in a Fox News interview Saturday morning.

Though the target and nature of Mueller’s criminal charges remain under a judge’s seal, some Republicans on Capitol Hill and former Trump officials reacted to the news by demanding the special counsel’s resignation.

“I take the position that we shouldn’t have a special counsel at this time,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told local reporters in Wisconsin. “[Mueller is] too close to Comey,” he added, referring to the former FBI Director fired by President Trump.

Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) made a similar argument to Fox News, accusing Mueller of being “compromised by his apparent conflict of interest in being close with James Comey.”

Chris Christie, who led Trump’s White House transition team until he was unceremoniously ousted last November, told Fox that “somebody with Bob Mueller’s integrity will step aside and should.”

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  1. Chrstie: Mueller has integrity so he should resign because we can’t trust his integrity.

  2. It’s their only option.

    And seriously, this is so weak it’s laughable.

  3. HILLARY IS SO WEAK OF A CANDIDATE, SHE COLLUDED WITH RUSSIA TO GET TRUMP ELECTED!!

    so there.

  4. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Impeach Hilary!

    What’s that? O…

    Well do it anyway!

  5. Mandy Rice-Davies, man. What the hell else can they say? No puppet, no puppet! You’re the puppet! I saw this at a murder trial once. Verdict came back guilty. As everyone left the family was yelling that the witnesses were liars. But you know what? The guy was guilty.

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