The tweet of President Donald Trump in which he called on his Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stop the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Muller into allegations of Russian interference in 2016 elections, is an opinion and not an order, the White House has said.
"It's not an order. It's the president's opinion, and it's ridiculous that all of the corruption and dishonesty that's gone on with the launching of the witch-hunt the president has watched this process play out, but he also wants to see it come to an end as he stated many times and I we look forward to that," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at her daily news conference yesterday.
By making such a tweet, Sanders argued that Trump is not indulging in obstruction of justice.
"The president is not obstructing; he's fighting back. The president is stating his opinion, he's stating it clearly, and he's certainly expressing the frustration that he has with the level of corruption that we've seen from people like Jim Comey, Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe," she said.
"There's a reason that the president's angry and, frankly, most of America is angry as well, and there's no reason he shouldn't be able to voice that opinion," Sanders said in response to a question.
"We certainly think it should be completed. We'd like it to be completed sooner rather than later. It's gone on for an extensive amount of time. They've still come up with nothing in regards to the president. We'd like to see it come to a close," she said.
The entire investigation is based on "a dirty, discredited dossier" that was paid for by an opposing campaign, and had a lot of corruption within the entity which was overseeing it, which was Strzok, Comey and McCabe, she alleged.
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