May 29, 2018

Trump: Mueller investigation "will be MEDDLING" with midterms

President Trump accused the investigators working on the Mueller probe of a plan to meddle in this fall's midterm elections in a Tuesday morning tweet, thanks to a recent Republican resurgence in the polls.

The state of play: This highlights Trump's torch-it-all strategy: "We might be numb to so many attacks on so many groups so often that it obscures how President Trump has torched virtually every institution that could one day hold him accountable."

Trump followed up with another tweet on the topic this morning, calling Mueller's probe a "Rigged Witch Hunt":

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