Trump hits Russia probe, Amazon in tweet barrage

The following article by Max Greenwood was posted on the Hill website July 23, 2018:

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President Trump launched a barrage of tweets on Monday morning, taking aim at a series of familiar targets ranging from the news media to Amazon to the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

In the string of tweets, Trump first targeted special counsel Robert Mueller‘s probe into Russia’s election meddling, claiming that recently released documents related to a surveillance warrant on Carter Page, a former campaign adviser to Trump, proved that FBI officials acted improperly during the 2016 presidential race.

He called Mueller’s investigation “totally conflicted and discredited” and demanded the probe be brought to an end immediately.

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