Trump: ‘Ridiculous’ the FBI Let Hillary Testify Without Being Sworn In
President Trump suggested it was unlikely he'll meet with Robert Mueller as part of his probe into the Trump campaign's contact with Russia.
Trump said the idea he colluded with Russia is a "Democratic hoax" meant to distract from the fact they lost a winnable election.
The president also criticized the FBI's handling of its investigation into Clinton's mishandling of classified material.
"When you talk about interviews, Hillary Clinton had an interview where she wasn’t sworn in, she wasn’t given the oath, they didn’t take notes, they didn’t record, and it was done on the 4th of July weekend," Trump said. "That’s perhaps ridiculous, and a lot of people looked upon that as being a very serious breach and it really was."
Here's a transcript of his exchange with Fox News's John Roberts:
ROBERTS: “Sarah brought up the Russia investigation. Your legal team, sources have told us, believes that in the next few weeks the Special Counsel Robert Mueller will ask for some sort of an interview with you, your legal team believes, as part of wrapping up his investigation. Are you open to meeting with him? Would you be willing to meet with him without condition or would you demand that a strict set of parameters be placed around any encounter between you and Special Counsel?”
TRUMP: “Well, again, John, there has been no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians or Trump and Russians. No collusion. When I watch you interviewing all the people leaving their committees, the Democrats are all running for office and they’re trying to say this, but bottom line they all say there is no collusion. And there is no collusion. And when you talk about interviews, Hillary Clinton had an interview where she wasn’t sworn in, she wasn’t given the oath, they didn’t take notes, they didn’t record, and it was done on the 4th of July weekend. That’s perhaps ridiculous, and a lot of people looked upon that as being a very serious breach and it really was. But, again, I’ll speak to attorneys. I can only say this, there was absolutely no collusion. Everybody knows it, every committee. I’ve been in office now for 11 months. For 11 months they’ve had this phony cloud over this administration and our government. And it has hurt our government. It does hurt our government. It’s a Democrat hoax that was brought up as an excuse for losing an election that frankly the Democrats should have won because they have such a tremendous advantage in the Electoral College, so it was brought up for that reason. But it has been determined that there is no collusion and by virtually everybody. So we’ll see what happens.”
