Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs accused special counsel Robert Mueller of engaging in an “ideologically inspired jihad” against President Trump as he leads the federal Russia investigation.
The remark came Monday evening, after former Deputy Attorney General Tom Dupree said that Trump’s attacks on Mueller over the weekend were “seeding the bed and planting doubts in the minds of the American public about the integrity of Bob Mueller and Bob Mueller’s team.”
“Yeah, and this has been going on for some time, this appeal to the court of public opinion, because the special counsel is leaking left and right, behaving like nothing so much as a prosecutor, he is more, if you will, you know — he’s on a jihad of some sort, and it is an ideologically inspired jihad,” Dobbs said.
Dobbs slammed the investigation for not wrapping up more quickly and Dupree suggested it may conclude shortly if Mueller “gets what he wants”: an interview with Trump.
“The hell with Mueller! Tom, the hell with what he wants! This is not a game! This is the president of the United States,” Dobbs said in response. “This nation deserves full-time leadership and no further effort to subvert, to overthrow the presidency of Donald J. Trump. It’s ignorant and it’s stupid beyond belief that our ideologically committed left-wing national media can’t even bring itself to be honest about what is happening every day in front of them and indeed the country.”
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Lou Dobbs: Mueller is “on a jihad of some sort, and it’s an ideologically inspired jihad” pic.twitter.com/oUFfiF2tSN
— Brendan Karet ? (@bad_takes) July 30, 2018
Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and if the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
Trump has routinely railed against the Mueller probe and over the weekend lashed out against Mueller, urging him to disclose information about alleged conflicts of interest that could impact his ability to conduct a fair investigation.
