Trump calls Manafort prosecution ‘a hoax,’ says Sessions should stop Mueller investigation ‘right now’
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A year of Trump's attacks on the special counsel probe
It's been a year since special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate the Trump campaign's ties to Russia - and since Trump's barbs started.
President Trump on Wednesday urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to terminate the investigation into Russian campaign interference “right now,” forcing his lawyers to scramble to clarify that the president was not ordering Sessions to take a specific action.

Democratic lawmakers and even some members of Trump’s own party reacted with alarm to a series of inflammatory morning tweets in which the president called the prosecution of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort “a hoax” and escalated his attacks on the investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

Trump’s tweets came at a particularly sensitive time in the investigation, as a federal jury in Virginia is hearing evidence in Manafort’s trial on tax evasion and fraud charges.

“This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it ­continues to stain our country any further,” the president tweeted. “Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!”

In an interview Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers said the president was not ordering Sessions to take any specific action with his latest missive.

“The president has issued no order or direction to the Department of Justice on this,” Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow said, adding that the president is allowed to express his opinion on Twitter.
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