Russia probe bad for America, but Mueller will be fair, says Trump
Washington — President Donald Trump said on Thursday that while the investigation into possible ties between his campaign and Russia made the US "look very bad", he believed special counsel Robert Mueller was "going to be fair" in his inquiry. The comments, made in an interview with the New York Times at his West Palm Beach golf club, come even as fellow Republicans have argued that the Mueller investigation is tainted by anti-Trump bias within the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). "There’s been no collusion. But I think he’s going to be fair," Trump said. While the president did not call for an immediate end to the investigation, he said that "the sooner it’s worked out, the better it is for the country". Earlier this month, Republican legislators seized on text messages, meetings and campaign contributions by members of Mueller’s investigative team to argue that those involved favoured Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Some of the J...
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