Trump's Hillary & Russia Tweets Draws Twitterati Reactions
Twitter users quickly responded to President Donald Trump’s series of Thursday tweets in which he asked why only his relationship with Russia was under scrutiny and not Hillary Clinton’s.
Within minutes of the tweets, many Twitter users responded to the president, telling him it was because he is the president of the country, not Clinton.
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A Twitter user Steve Schreiber wrote, "She's not the President. She's not anything now. She's irrelevant to any conversation, just as irrelevant as Mitt Romney is today."
Many others on Twitter too reminded the president that Clinton was an ordinary citizen of the country and was not as relevant as him.
Others in some serious tweets tried to justify that Clinton had come out clean in many enquiries conducted in the past and Trump’s statement was irrelevant.
The tweets from the president came after it was reported on Wednesday night that special counsel Robert Mueller and his team was expanding the Russia probe.
Citing unnamed sources, the Washington Post reported that the special counsel was investigating if Trump tried to obstruct justice when he fired the then FBI director James Comey.
The New York Times had also reported the investigation was now looking into if Trump associates laundered from Russia during presidential campaigns.
Trump had also mocked federal investigators, saying on Twitter they made up a “phony collusion with the Russians story and found zero proof.” In another tweet later, the president called the Russia investigation a “witch hunt” and described the people leading it as “very bad.”
He refrained from saying anything during former FBI Director James Comey's testimony at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on June 8, 2017. However, the next morning the president posted a tweet accusing Comey of making false statements and lies.
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Comey had testified he believed he was fired to change the way the Russian investigation was being conducted. Comey had also said Trump had pushed him to stop looking into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Taking about the issue with the citizens of his country, Russian President Valdamir Putin said it looked strange Comey would memorize a conversation he had with Trump and then leak it to the press. When asked if Comey’s case was similar to that of Snowden, Putin said he would be ready to offer political asylum to Comey if he's persecuted in the U.S.
Trump also tweeted that Hillary Clinton “destroyed phones w/ hammer, ‘bleached’ emails, & had husband meet w/AG.”
Trump’s tweets apparently referred to the allegations in the stories that came up during the presidential campaign stating an aide to Mrs. Clinton had told the FBI he had disposed her old mobile phones by breaking then with a hammer.
It was also reported that that an employee of the company that handled Clinton’s private email servers also deleted some mails. The FBI later concluded that Clinton was not aware of the deletions.
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