Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump launched a furious broadside Thursday morning against Robert Mueller, a day after the special counsel gave remarks that left the impression he would have charged Trump with obstruction of justice if he were not the sitting President.

Trump renewed his attacks on Mueller's character, accusing him and his team of being biased against him even as he falsely claimed that Mueller's report had exonerated him.

And moments after he claimed on Twitter that he "had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected," the President in remarks to reporters at the White House reversed himself, freshly rejecting the idea of a Russian effort to boost his 2016 campaign -- another instance of him contradicting US intelligence findings.

"No, Russia did not help me get elected," Trump told reporters at the White House. "You know who got me elected? You know who got me elected? I got me elected. Russia didn't help me at all. Russia, if anything, I think, helped the other side."

The US intelligence community has assessed that Russia acted in 2016 to hurt former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign.

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