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Trump’s initial reaction to Mueller’s appointment was “this is the end of my Presidency”: report

Trump's initial reaction to Mueller's appointment was "this is the end of my Presidency": report

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Donald Trump’s first reaction to Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel was “this is the end of my Presidency” and the US President was so furious that he reacted with an expletive, according to the counsel’s report.

In a major relief to President Trump, the nearly two-year probe by Mueller found “no evidence” of a “collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 US elections, Attorney General William Barr announced Thursday.

Barr said the redacted report released Thursday made it clear that the Russian government sought to interfere in American elections, “but thanks to the special counsel’s thorough investigation, we now know that the Russian operatives who perpetrated these schemes did not have the cooperation of President Trump or the Trump campaign”.

Trump first learned that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel from then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a meeting to interview candidates for FBI director in May 2017, the report said.

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