President Donald Trump on Friday wrote that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report contains “fabricated and totally untrue” statements about him.
Trump said in a series of tweets following the release of the Mueller report on Thursday: “Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue. Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the ‘Report’ about me, some of which are total bull---- & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad). This was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened, a…”
Although the Mueller report did not conclude that Trump or his campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election, it did describe several acts by Trump that caused the special counsel to write that investigators could not state that Trump “clearly did not commit obstruction of justice.”
Trump previously hailed the Mueller report as a “total exoneration,” after Attorney General William Barr released a letter to Congress outlining its conclusions at the end of March.