President Donald Trump has again repudiated Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia, calling it a 'Witch hunt' that never should have started in the first place.
'The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime,' Trump tweeted on Saturday night.
'It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!' he continued.
Earlier in the day, Trump's lawyer backtracked on an earlier demand for the deputy attorney general to shut down the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the elections.
John Dowd said on Saturday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should follow the example of his boss, Jeff Sessions, and fire Mueller
Dowd made the comments to The Daily Beast.
He later walked back the statements, insisting that he was only speaking for himself and not on the president’s behalf.
