Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he believes the probe into Russian meddling in the US election “makes the country look very bad,” according to The New York Times.
Speaking to the newspaper on Thursday, Trump said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller will treat him fairly — a view in contrast with recent attacks on Mueller’s credibility from Republicans, who have pressed for a new independent prosecutor to investigate anti-Trump bias.
“It makes the country look very bad, and it puts the country in a very bad position,” Trump told the Times. “So the sooner it’s worked out, the better it is for the country.”
The president added that he was not concerned about the ongoing investigation — which his lawyers insisted would be finished by Thanksgiving — as “everybody knows” there was no Russian collusion.
“There’s been no collusion. But I think he’s going to be fair,” Trump said of Mueller.
He repeated the allegations were invented by Democrats “as a hoax, as a ruse, as an excuse for losing an election,” the Times reported.
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