WASHINGTON — President Trump on Saturday unleashed an extended assault on the F.B.I. and the special counsel’s investigation, knitting together a comprehensive alternative story in which he had been framed by disgraced “losers” at the bureau’s highest levels. He was responding to a report in The New York Times that, after he fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. In his tweets, the president accused Hillary Clinton, without evidence, of breaking the law by lying to the F.B.I. He said Mr. Mueller was employing a team of Democrats — another misleading assertion — bent on taking him down.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2019 20:04 UTC