Special counsel Robert Mueller will be carefully monitoring Donald Trump’s reaction to the indictments in his investigation into Russian collusion in the election, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. He hinted to CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump may cause himself legal trouble if his actions include, for example, bullying behavior toward witnesses. Bharara pointed to Trump’s unfiltered comments on national TV after he fired then-FBI director James Comey. “He went on television with [NBC’s] Lester Holt and said some things that I think people find incriminating in connection with an obstruction investigation,” Bharara noted. Trump released a flurry of tweets Sunday calling Mueller’s investigation a “witch hunt.” He has said repeatedly that the Democrats and Clinton are guilty of colluding with the Russians, pleading: “DO SOMETHING!”

Source: Huffington Post October 30, 2017 03:45 UTC