President Trump played golf Friday with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, a day after the release of a report from special counsel Robert Mueller that the White House says clears the chief executive of colluding with Russia and obstructing a subsequent investigation.
Trump was joined by his talk-radio ally and a couple of other friends at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., the White House said in a statement without further details.
The president, who arrived at the course while it was raining, is spending a three-day Easter weekend at his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort. He arrived in Florida on Thursday, following the Justice Department’s publication of Mueller’s report, which found no evidence that contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russia violated criminal law.
Trump has not taken questions from journalists since Mueller’s report was released. His personal attorney Rudy Giuliani delayed release of a rebuttal until after the weekend, judging public reaction to the Mueller report as surprisingly favorable.
On Twitter, however, Trump attacked Mueller’s work, which has fueled criticism from congressional Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said the document “paints a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving a web of deceit, lies and improper behavior.”
Shortly before meeting with Limbaugh, Trump wrote that certain statements in “the Crazy Mueller Report” are “total bullshit.”
The document, which was 448 pages long, included details on meetings between campaign workers and Russian agents and left unanswered the question of whether Trump’s firing of former FBI director James Comey and instructions to remove Mueller himself amounted to obstruction of justice.
William Barr, the Trump appointee whom the Senate confirmed as attorney general earlier this year, determined that it didn’t.
