President Donald Trump has railed against congressional Democrats who have pledged to push forward with sweeping investigations into his finances and ties to Russia. | Scott Olson/Getty Images) White House Trump: Dems 'pretending that their former hero' Mueller 'no longer exists'

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that previously vocal defenders of special counsel Robert Mueller are now spurning their “former hero” following his conclusion that the Trump campaign did not conspire with Russian agents to interfere in the 2016 election.

“Now that the long awaited Mueller Report conclusions have been released, most Democrats and others have gone back to the pre-Witch Hunt phase of their lives before Collusion Delusion took over,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Others are pretending that their former hero, Bob Mueller, no longer exists!”


The president has railed against congressional Democrats who have pledged to push forward with sweeping investigations into his finances and ties to Russia, despite Attorney General William Barr’s announcement last month that Mueller's investigation found no collusion and insufficient evidence for obstruction of justice in his two-year probe.

Democrats, meanwhile, have sought and struggled at times to present a unified front following the conclusion of Mueller’s investigation, the conclusions of which party leaders had said they would defer to on the question of impeaching the president.

But while Mueller concluded that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Kremlin, the special counsel’s probe resulted in convictions and guilty pleas from high-level operatives within the Trump campaign and threatened members of Trump’s innermost circle even if they were not ultimately charged.

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Although Barr last week summarized Mueller’s conclusions on the two largest questions of the Russia investigation, Democrats have continued to push for the public release of the special counsel’s entire report as well as its underlying evidence. According to the attorney general, Mueller’s investigation did “not conclude that the President committed a crime” but “also does not exonerate him” — a line Democrats have seized on in their demands for the full report.

Barr told lawmakers last week that a redacted version of the report could be expected around mid-April.

In the meantime, several of Mueller’s high-profile defenders in Congress have not backed down from their insistence that there is evidence Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia, arguing that it’s possible such collusion would not amount to criminality or that Mueller’s narrow mandate hamstrung his inquiry.

Trump claimed later Monday morning that Democrats hungry for damning information about him will never stop hunting for it. Whatever information Democrats are given on the Mueller report, Trump wrote on Twitter, "will never be good enough."

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on Monday morning announced plans to subpoena Mueller’s full report despite Barr’s assurance that the document will be released by mid-April. Barr has said some portions would be redacted.

In addition, Nadler began a wide-ranging investigation into obstruction of justice allegations against Trump last month ahead of the release of Mueller’s report.

“No matter what information is given to the crazed Democrats from the No Collusion Mueller Report, it will never be good enough,” Trump tweeted. “Behind closed doors the Dems are laughing!”