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Trump slams Mueller probe on one-year anniversary

Thursday marked one year since Mueller was named special counsel in the investigation into Russian interference in the election and the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Moscow.

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President Donald Trump outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC on May 16, 2018.Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA

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President Donald Trump rang in the one-year anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller by slamming the probe into his campaign's ties to Russian during the 2016 election.

"Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History...and there is still No Collusion and No Obstruction," Trump tweeted. "The only Collusion was that done by Democrats who were unable to win an Election despite the spending of far more money!"

Thursday marked one year since Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller, a former FBI director, to be a special counsel overseeing the investigation.

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Since Mueller's appointment, nearly 20 individuals have been charged with crimes, including five who pleaded guilty (among them the president’s former national security adviser, a top campaign and transition aide) and 13 Russian nationals.

Trump has repeatedly ripped the probe as a "witch hunt."

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