{"id":109365,"date":"2018-11-28T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=109365"},"modified":"2018-11-28T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:11:29","slug":"109365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=109365","title":{"rendered":"Trump tweets Special Counsel Mueller is a &#8220;conflicted prosecutor gone rogue&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump shares image calling for his opponents to face trials for \u2018treason\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/trumpdonald5_110718getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109368\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/trumpdonald5_110718getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/trumpdonald5_110718getty.jpg 980w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/trumpdonald5_110718getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/trumpdonald5_110718getty-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BY\u00a0EMILY BIRNBAUM<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p>President Trump on Wednesday morning shared an image calling for his opponents to face trial for &#8220;treason,&#8221; with many of them behind bars.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Wednesday morning shared an\u00a0image\u00a0calling for\u00a0his opponents to face\u00a0trial for\u00a0&#8220;treason,&#8221; with many of them\u00a0behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The image, which the president retweeted from a pro-Trump Twitter account, depicts a host of\u00a0figures Trump has criticized, including former President Obama,\u00a02016 Democratic presidential nominee\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>, special counsel\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/robert-mueller\" data-nid=\"364882\">Robert Mueller<\/a><\/span>, former FBI Director\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/james-comey\" data-nid=\"365988\">James Comey<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and former President\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/bill-clinton\" data-nid=\"188333\">Bill Clinton<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that Russia collusion is a proven lie, when do the trials for treason begin?&#8221; the caption on the photo reads.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the figures in the image were targeted with mailed explosives allegedly from a Trump supporter last month.<\/p>\n<p>The retweet comes as reports emerge that Mueller&#8217;s team is working on their final report about its investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Monday lashed out at Mueller as a &#8220;conflicted prosecutor gone rogue&#8221; following a new filing from the special counsel that\u00a0claims\u00a0Trump&#8217;s former campaign chairman,\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/paul-manafort\" data-nid=\"365273\">Paul Manafort<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/national-security\/418341-manafort-violates-plea-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violated a plea agreement<\/a>\u00a0by lying to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, Trump\u00a0accused\u00a0Mueller of causing &#8220;tremendous&#8221; damage to the nation&#8217;s criminal justice system and\u00a0\u201conly looking at one side\u201d in his investigation.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/418630-trump-shares-image-calling-for-his-opponents-to-face-trials-for\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/418630-trump-shares-image-calling-for-his-opponents-to-face-trials-for<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump shares image calling for his opponents to face trials for \u2018treason\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}