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Trump, Without Offering Evidence, Accuses Mueller of Crime

Reuters

   U.S. President Donald Trump, without offering evidence, on Wednesday
   directly accused former special counsel Robert Mueller of committing a
   crime, sayingMueller had illegally "terminated" FBI communications as
   part ofhis Russia investigation.

   The Justice Department declined to comment.

   "Mueller terminated them illegally. He terminatedall oftheemails. ...
   Robert Mueller terminated their text messagestogether. He terminated
   them. They're gone. And that's illegal.That's a crime," Trump said in
   an interview with Fox BusinessNetwork, referring to two former Federal
   Bureau of Investigationemployees who exchanged disparaging messages
   about thepresident.

   Trump made the remarks ahead of Mueller's scheduledtestimony before
   lawmakers next month about his investigationinto Russian interference
   in the 2016 U.S. election and whetherthe Trump campaign colluded with
   Moscow.

   The Republican president, who formally launched hisre-election bid last
   week, repeatedly railed against Mueller'sprobe during the two-year
   investigation and accused several ofthe team's investigators of being
   Democrats targeting him.

   He has also accused Mueller, a Republican,of having a business conflict
   ofinterest tied to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, as wellas for
   meeting with him early in Trump's White House term aboutthe possibility
   of leading the FBI a second time.

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