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Who spoke to the Washington Post. The Republican Party is already claiming victory. Take a look at this Communications Email from the rnc. After investigating for nearly a year, the Washington Post is reporting that President Trump is not a target of special counsel Robert Muellers probe. That means that after all this time, mueller and his entire team of lawyers have still not gathered enough evidence for trump to become a target. Thats huge news. Well ignore the absurdity of the rnc news from an organization the republican president labels as fake and propaganda, after all, this is a news story the president can use to try to claim something hes been claiming all along. Was he being truthful . I know im not under investigation, me personally. In theory everybody tells me im not under investigation, maybe hillary is, but im not. But theres been no collusion. Theres been no crime. But heres the thing, he is under investigation. Hes been under investigation since last june after he fire