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Mueller steamrolls Trump’s campaign against him

The president and his allies are calling for Mueller’s probe to stop after the DOJ watchdog report. But Mueller is showing no signs of slowing down.

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN and QUINT FORGEY
06/15/2018 11:29 AM EDT
Updated 06/15/2018 03:27 PM EDT

President Donald Trump and his allies seized Friday on the Justice Department inspector general’s report into the Hillary Clinton email investigation to claim special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling probe is corrupt and must end.

Try telling that to Mueller.

Hours after the president thundered from the White House North Lawn about a Mueller probe that “has been totally discredited,” the special counsel’s team chalked up another win when a federal judge ordered Paul Manafort be sent to jail over accusations of witness tampering ahead of the former Trump campaign chairman’s upcoming criminal trial.

Despite Trump’s complaints, Mueller remains very much on the clock. He’s now more than a year into his examination of Moscow meddling in the 2016 election with no deadline to finish his work.
And he continues to haul witnesses under subpoena before the grand jury while potential lines of investigation remain open not just involving Trump himself but also his namesake company, the Trump Organization, and longtime associates such as political operative Roger Stone and personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

“Mueller is simply going to continue to hunker down and do his job,” said Sol Wisenberg, a former deputy on Kenneth Starr’s independent counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton. “And the president, in the attacks on Mueller, is continuing to act like a person who has something to hide.”

Trump’s wrath was on display Friday morning with an extraordinary, impromptu and lengthy interview outside the White House on “Fox & Friends,” in which an invigorated president said he was vindicated in firing James Comey because the former FBI director committed “criminal” acts, that the watchdog report wrongly concluded there was not political bias against him, and that he may not stay uninvolved in the Justice Department’s activities much longer.

He also falsely claimed the DOJ watchdog report “totally exonerates” him.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/15/trump-ig-report-mueller-investigation-648989