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U.S. President Donald Trump has swiped back at Special Counsel Robert Mueller after the former FBI director made his first and last public statement about his marathon Russia probe.
Trump labeled Mueller as "conflicted" and "a true never Trumper".
For more on this and other news around the world, let's turn to our Hong Yoo…
So Yoo, fill us in on what President Trump had to say.
Well, Connyoung, President Trump responded to Mueller's public statement for the first time on Thursday as he was leaving for a trip to Colorado.
When reporters on the White House South Lawn asked to him about Mueller's statement, Trump said there was no change from what was said in the report that had been handed over to Attorney General William Barr.
"It was, to me, the same as the report. And there's no obstruction. You see what we're saying. There's no obstruction, there's no collusion, there's no nothing. It's nothing but a witch hunt. It was a witch hunt by the media and the Democrats, their partners."
However, Mueller never said there was no obstruction, instead saying he did not have the "option" of charging a sitting president with a crime, but if he had determined President Trump had not committed a crime, he would have said so.
Since the statement, Democrats have been clambering for Trump to be impeached.
President Trump did little to hide his disgust.
"I don't see how. They can because they're possibly allowed although I can't imagine the courts allowing it. I've never gone into it. I never thought that would even be possible to be using that word. To me, it's a dirty word, the word impeach. It's a dirty, filthy, disgusting word. And it had nothing to do with me."
Asked if Mueller had behaved honorably, President Trump said Mueller was "totally conflicted" because of an alleged business dispute he claimed he had with Mueller and because Mueller is a close friend of former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired in 2017.
