Trump: ‘Mueller probe should never have been started’

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President Trump on Saturday tweeted that the federal inquiry into whether his campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election “should never have started.”

He repeated his belief that the investigation, overseen by special counsel Robert Mueller, was a “witch hunt” and that the dossier, which government officials cited in seeking authority to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, had been paid for in part by the campaign of Hillary Clinton.

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