WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump Thursday said he believes the probe into Russian meddling in the US election “makes the country look very bad,” according to The New York Times. “It makes the country look very bad, and it puts the country in a very bad position,” Trump told the Times. But I think he’s going to be fair,” Trump said of Mueller. Trump also distanced himself from ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was indicted in October in the first legal action stemming from the investigation. He told the Times that “for purposes of hopefully thinking I’m going to be treated fairly, I’ve stayed uninvolved with this particular matter.”--AFP

Source: New Strait Times December 29, 2017 03:33 UTC