Trump has repeatedly attacked Robert Mueller and the Mueller investigation, especially around 2018–2019, calling it biased, illegitimate, and personally conflicted.

Key things Trump said about Mueller

  • Trump called Robert Mueller “highly conflicted,” arguing that if Mueller had “anything” on him, he “would have brought charges,” but that “there were no charges to bring.”
  • He claimed Mueller was “totally conflicted” and said Mueller had wanted to be FBI director again, didn’t get the job, and then was chosen as special counsel, which Trump argued was improper.
  • Trump said “Mueller should have never been chosen” as special counsel and suggested there were prior “business” disputes between them and political bias (“Never Trumper”).
  • On Twitter and in interviews he described Mueller as a “conflicted prosecutor gone rogue” and the Russia investigation as a “phony witch hunt.”
  • He repeatedly insisted the Mueller probe found “no collusion” and “no obstruction,” saying “there was no crime, there was no collusion there was no nothing,” and that if Mueller’s team had anything, “they would have had it.”
  • After Mueller’s public statement in May 2019, Trump said impeachment was a “dirty, filthy, disgusting word” and called the whole process “presidential harassment.”

How this fit into the larger narrative

  • Trump used this language to cast the Mueller investigation as a partisan attack, often calling it a “hoax” and part of a “false narrative” that harmed the country and should “never happen to another president again.”
  • He also flipped Mueller’s careful legal wording into a political talking point, claiming Mueller had essentially said he was “innocent,” even though Mueller explicitly said he was not exonerating the president.

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