Trump Claims Mueller Team ‘Will Be Meddling’ With Midterm Elections

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 17: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), not pictured, in the Oval Office of the W... WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 17: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House May 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. The White House said the two leaders will be discussing the upcoming NATO Summit in July. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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In a mystifying turn of events, President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed the team of federal investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, will themselves actually be “MEDDLING” in the upcoming midterm elections.

Apparently referencing special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators, Trump launched a series of tweets about the “13 Angry Democrats” early Tuesday who, he claimed, were taking great pains to keep Republicans from “taking the lead in the Polls.” He repeated his tired defense that there was “no Collusion” by anyone, “except by the Democrats!” and also said federal investigators should be spending their resources investigating his former political opponent and his predecessor.

Trump’s Tuesday tweets are just the President’s latest attempts to discredit the Russia probe by undermining his Justice Department for having, as he claims, a “deep state” political bias against him.

In recent weeks, Trump has become transfixed on reports that a government informant met with members of his campaign. He’s labeled the whole ordeal “spygate” and has peddled claims that the “spy” was dispatched by the Obama administration for political reasons.

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  1. I forget who it was on this board (or maybe it was all of us) that said that as time goes on, Rump will spiral even further into chaos and madness. His malignant narcissism wouldn’t permit otherwise. It was on the money.

  2. Completely unhinged. Further more, his base (white nationalists and Evangelicals) completely buys in to this deranged drivel.

    My two cents.

  3. Time to 25 45

  4. especially now that Republicans (stay tough!) are taking the lead in Polls

    With the exception of Morrissey (who’s getting spanked),Cruz (who is leading by 7) and Scott (leading by 4), most of his guys are in ‘dog fights’.

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