‘Like a 3d world country!’ Trump attacks Democrat ‘coup’ in 1st post-Mueller interview

On a victory lap since his election campaign was cleared of collusion with Moscow, Trump relied on a few tried and trusted tropes as he bashed “13 angry Democrats” and “dirty cops” from the FBI for sparking the Russian investigation in an interview to Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

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The long-awaited publication of the redacted version of the report appears to have given Trump a huge boost of confidence as he sounded more assertive than ever taking aim at his political opponents and doubling down on his innocence. Although the report did not find any collusion, it did not provide any opinion whether Trump obstructed justice which, in turn, did not stop the US President from declaring himself completely exonerated by the findings.

The greatest scandal in the history of our country. Bigger than Watergate, because it means so much. This wasn’t stealing information from an office in the Watergate apartments. This was an attempted coup. It’s inconceivable. Like a third world country. 

Trump lashed out at his former rival Hillary Clinton for “destroying the lives” of his staffers and blasted the FBI for going light on her during her private server investigation.

But now, he said, “tables have turned” and “it’s time to look at the other side,” calling the Russia investigation an “attempted overthrow of the United States government” and “a disgraceful thing.”

Trump has frequently employed the same rhetoric when taking swipes at the Mueller probe. After the summary of the 400-page report was released early April, Trump urged an investigation into “an attempted take-down of a president.”

He has also compared the US to a “third-world country” before, telling a rally last year that only in a third-world country opposition would try to impeach the president “before you even found out whether or not he or she is going to do a great job.”

While the Mueller report did not find any collusion between Russian and the Trump campaign, leaving a question mark over the obstruction issue, some of the most fervent Trump opponents in the Democrat camp insist on launching impeachment proceedings. The claims that the Kremlin has compromising material on Trump, that are likewise unsupported, are also not going away and have resurfaced in the media.

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