New York Daily News

SABOTAGE

Hypes ‘spying’ fantasy to derail Mueller

- With James Fanelli and News Wire Services

Wittes, who added Trump was constituti­onally able to demand such an action, suggested Rosenstein and FBI Director Christophe­r Wray would resign instead of carry out the probe.

Georgetown University law professor Carrie Cordero also cast doubt on the Justice Department kick-starting a probe at the President’s behest.

“The Department of Justice doesn’t open investigat­ions for political purposes, which is what the President says today he will order tomorrow,” she tweeted Sunday. “There are rules. And I’m convinced there are people left in this government who will follow them.”

A chunk of Trump’s request may already be covered by an investigat­ion opened in March by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and GOP lawmakers requested the watchdog review any improper surveillan­ce of Page and the use of informatio­n gathered by British ex-spy Christophe­r Steele.

Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani (photo inset), the President’s personal lawyer, said last week that neither he nor Trump know for sure whether an informant was actually snooping on the campaign. On Saturday, he told The Wall Street Journal that his client needed answers about the supposed informant before agreeing to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump’s announceme­nt on Sunday came at the tail end of a Twitter tirade, in which he called Mueller’s Russia probe the “World’s most expensive Witch Hunt.” He said the special counsel’s team is staffed with his political opponents and that the investigat­ion into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election has cost $20 million in tax dollars.

“STOP! They have found no Collussion with Russia, No Obstructio­n, but they aren’t looking at the corruption,” Trump tweeted.

He also trashed the “Failing and Crooked” New York Times report about an August 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Lebanese-American businessma­n George Nader.

Nader, who’s reportedly cooperatin­g with Mueller’s probe, was supposedly acting as emissary for princes from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who wanted to help the Trump campaign.

 ??  ?? President Trump summoned up his most important-sounding words Sunday as he tweeted demand for Department of Justice to investigat­e use of FBI informants that may have helped Robert Mueller (below) in Russia investigat­ion.
President Trump summoned up his most important-sounding words Sunday as he tweeted demand for Department of Justice to investigat­e use of FBI informants that may have helped Robert Mueller (below) in Russia investigat­ion.
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