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The probe by the special counsel into Russia’s 2016 election interference ended appropriately, US President Donald Trump declared Monday, as he relished a conclusion reached over the weekend that his campaign did not collude with the Russians.
“It’s lasted a long time, we’re glad it’s over. It’s 100 percent the way it should have been. I wish it could have gone a lot sooner, a lot quicker,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
“There are a lot of people out there that have done some very evil things, some very bad things. I would say treasonous things against our country,” Trump said, adding that these unnamed people “will be looked at.”
“What they did was a false narrative, it was a terrible thing. We can never let this happen to another president again, I say this very strongly. Very few people could have handled it,” Trump declared.
The full report by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, has not yet been released, and there are growing demands from Trump’s opponents to have the entire document put into the public domain. The president has hinted that he is not opposed to this.
Trump’s recently appointed Attorney General William Barr did issue a four-page summary on Sunday, which said Mueller did not find collusion. Barr then concluded that the president did not engage in activity that would be considered obstruction-of-justice.
The Kremlin on Monday welcomed the result of the almost two-year US investigation. “The allegations being made against Russia in regard to meddling in US electoral precesses are without validity,” Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “It’s hard to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is none,” Peskov said in comments carried by state news agency TASS. The investigation had spanned much of Trump’s presidency. It included about 500 witness interviews, 2,800 subpoenas and 13 evidence requests to foreign governments.
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