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   Trump To Attorney General Jeff Sessions: "Stop Mueller Probe 'Right Now'   
      
   Trump calls on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Robert Mueller's   
   Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry.   
   "Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right   
   now," the president tweets. "Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17   
   Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!"   
   The president's attacks on the special counsel have escalated in recent   
   weeks. Trump's attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, made   
   headlines on Monday saying that "collusion is not a crime."   
      
   Trump on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Robert   
   Mueller's Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry.   
      
   "Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right   
   now," the president wrote in a post on Twitter. "Bob Mueller is totally   
   conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a   
   disgrace to USA!"   
      
   Trump's tweet came before the trial of ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort   
   entered its second day in federal court in Virginia. Manafort is being   
   tried by Mueller's team.   
      
   The president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a statement to NBC News   
   Wednesday afternoon that the president "was expressing his opinion" and   
   that "no Presidential order was issued or will be."   
      
   "The president is not obstructing, he is fighting back," White House Press   
   Secretary Sarah Sanders said during a briefing with reporters later in the   
   day.   
      
   Sessions, who endorsed Trump's presidential bid during the 2016 campaign,   
   recused himself from the Russia investigation last March, before Mueller   
   was appointed. The investigation is being overseen by Deputy Attorney   
   General Rod Rosenstein, who has defended Mueller against critics in   
   Congress.   
      
   Trump has attacked Sessions several times for his recusal. In June, the   
   president wrote in a post on Twitter that Mueller was continuing to   
   investigate "all because Jeff Sessions didn't tell me he was going to   
   recuse himself."   
      
   "I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted,   
   so many lives ruined...and Sessions knew better than most that there was   
   No Collusion," Trump tweeted.   
      
   The White House did not respond to a request to elaborate on the   
   president's remarks. The office of the special counsel and the Department   
   of Justice declined to comment.   
      
   Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the president's tweet   
   "just another attempt to make the American people look at his latest shiny   
   object."   
      
   In a post on Twitter Wednesday, Schumer quoted the president's tweet and   
   wrote: "The Mueller-Rosenstein investigation is making progress at record   
   speed: 35 indictments, 5 guilty pleas & Trump's campaign chairman on   
   trial."   
      
   California congressman Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House   
   Intelligence Committee, called the president's tweet "an attempt to   
   obstruct justice hiding in plain sight."   
      
      
   AshLee Strong, spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., told NBC   
   News that Ryan "has said many times the investigation should continue to   
   its conclusion." His position has not changed, she said.   
      
   The special counsel is investigating the president's tweets criticizing   
   Sessions as part of a wider inquiry into whether the president has   
   obstructed justice, The New York Times reported last month.   
      
   Trump and his legal team have escalated their attacks on the special   
   counsel in recent weeks.   
      
   Giuliani made headlines on Monday saying that "collusion is not a crime."   
   The president doubled down on his attorney's comments, tweeting on Tuesday   
   that "Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn't matter because there was   
   No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!"   
      
   It's true that "collusion" is not a word that appears in any criminal   
   statute that Mueller is examining. Mueller, however, has pursued charges   
   involving conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements.   
      
      
   https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/trump-urges-attorney-general-sessions-to-   
   stop-mueller-probe-right-now.html   
      
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