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Your support makes all the difference.News anchor Nicolle Wallace cut herself off while reading Donald Trump’s tweets aloud on her current affairs programme to call the posts “boldface lies”
“I’m not reading any more of this,” she said, laughing. “These are bald-faced lies and as his audacity and his sort of fantasies expand, I wonder what role you think the truth plays in this for any of them.”
Ms Wallace is a former senior communications officer for George W Bush’s administration who now works as a journalist and TV host for US broadcaster MSNBC.
In the Twitter posts, the president made unproven claims of FBI misconduct and accused the Democrats of planting a spy in his campaign “for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain”.
Mr Trump and his legal team have questioned the FBI’s use of an informant in the early stages of its investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The President said in a Twitter post on Friday.“The Democrats are now alluding to the the concept that having an Informant placed in an opposing party’s campaign is different than having a Spy, as illegal as that may be,
“But what about an 'Informant' who is paid a fortune and who ‘sets up’ way earlier than the Russian Hoax?”
In a second Twitter post, Mr Trump said: “Can anyone even imagine having Spies placed in a competing campaign, by the people and party in absolute power, for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain?”
“And to think that the party in question, even with the expenditure of far more money, LOST!”
So far, 19 people, including Mr Trump’s former campaign chairman and former national security adviser, have been charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Three of Mr Trump’s former aides have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with the investigation.
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