After Donald Trump's latest Twitter meltdown which targeted Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, concerns are rising that the president is on the verge of firing the two men.
Hours later, a source close to Mr Trump's outside legal team said the President did not intend his tweet to be confirmation of the investigation but rather was reacting to a Washington Post story.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein soon named Robert Mueller to take over the Russian Federation investigation and reportedly is now looking into whether Trump tried to obstruct justice for pressuring investigators.
"The president is not under investigation by the special counsel", Sekulow told NBC's Chuck Todd. Reports also said the president, at one point, thought of firing Mueller because he thought the special counsel was a part "witch hunt" against him.
While aides have advised Trump to stay off Twitter, the president continued to weigh in on the widening legal investigations Sunday.
President Trump also tweeted: "After 7 months of investigations & committee hearings about my 'collusion with the Russians, ' nobody has been able to show any proof".
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"If the president is innocent, why is he afraid of this investigation?" Attention is focused on the question of obstruction simply because so much of Trump's campaign to deep-six the investigation has been conducted openly, at full volume.
Sekulow responded that Trump had been getting at a "constitutional issue".
Several White House officials and Trump associates insisted on anonymity in order to discuss the president's views of the unfolding investigation. He lashed out at a top Justice Department official overseeing the inquiry, reflecting his mounting frustration with the unrelenting controversy that has consumed his early presidency.
In a statement, Feinstein said, "The message the president is sending through his tweets is that he believes the rule of law doesn't apply to him and that anyone who thinks otherwise will be fired". "The Department of Justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations". Sekulow added that Trump is "very effective" with his use of social media.
The source said investigators have sought information from Richard Ledgett, who recently retired as deputy NSA director and, the source said, had written a memo documenting an attempt from Trump urging Rogers to tamp down on the FBI's Russian Federation investigation.
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