"The last thing I want is help from Russia on a campaign," President Donald Trump said. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo White House Trump says he's 'very happy' on 'the Mueller situation' after release of court filings

President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that special counsel Robert Mueller's probe is "all turning around very nicely” and insisted that he was "very happy" with the release of three long-awaited court filings Friday that shed more light on his associates' contacts with Russian officials ahead of the 2016 election.

"On the Mueller situation, we’re very happy with what we are reading because there was no collusion whatsoever. The last thing I want is help from Russia on a campaign," Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, en route to the Army-Navy Football Game in Philadelphia, according to a pool report.


"You should ask Hillary Clinton about Russia," Trump added.

The president also described the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin as a “very one-sided situation, but I think it’s all turning around very nicely.”

According to a filing Friday from Mueller's office, Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen told prosecutors that he reached out to Russia’s government to set up a meeting during President Vladimir Putin's visit to the United Nations General Assembly in late 2015, after conferring with Trump beforehand.

The filing from Mueller’s office also disclosed that Cohen spoke to an unnamed Russian national claiming to be a “trusted person” in the Russian Federation in or around November 2015. That person offered to help Trump’s campaign with “political synergy” and “synergy on a government level,” according to the filing.

In a tweet earlier Saturday, Trump reiterated that his presidential campaign did not conspire with Russia and hammered the special counsel's work.

“AFTER TWO YEARS AND MILLIONS OF PAGES OF DOCUMENTS (and a cost of over $30,000,000), NO COLLUSION!” the president wrote online.

The president later appeared to quote Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera, tweeting: "'This is collusion illusion, there is no smoking gun here. At this late date, after all that we have gone through, after millions have been spent, we have no Russian Collusion. There is nothing impeachable here.' @GeraldoRivera."

"Time for the Witch Hunt to END!" the president also wrote.

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and a member of the legal team representing Trump in the special counsel's probe, also weighed in Saturday.

"Fake News coverage can’t change the reality that Mueller’s late Friday dump demonstrates yet again no evidence connected to President," Giuliani tweeted. "It also indicates SDNY is asking that Cohen receive a 4 year prison sentence, longest so far, because as we have said he’s still lying."

Giuliani was referring to a filing Friday by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York — separate from the one issued by the special counsel that same day — who said Cohen offered minimal assistance after pleading guilty to a string of serious financial crimes, and recommended a prison sentence of just shy of four years for the former Trump fixer.

As details of the filings emerged Friday evening, Trump tweeted: “Totally vindicates the President. Thank you!"

The president had also unleashed a series of tweets attacking the special counsel early Friday morning. He and his legal team have repeatedly claimed that Cohen is lying, and Trump has given various differing amounts of the cost of the Mueller investigation.

The president began tweeting just after 7:30 a.m. Saturday, hitting President Emmanuel Macron of France for recent protests in Paris over Macron’s planned hike of fuel taxes.

“The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France,” Trump wrote online, referring to the 2015 multinational climate accord the U.S. withdrew from in June 2017.

“People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting ‘We Want Trump!’ Love France,” Trump wrote. There was little available evidence for Trump's claims.

Roughly 20 minutes later, Trump took aim at Macron’s comments last month that Europe should have its own army.

“The idea of a European Military didn’t work out too well in W.W. I or 2,” Trump tweeted. “But the U.S. was there for you, and always will be. All we ask is that you pay your fair share of NATO. Germany is paying 1% while the U.S. pays 4.3% of a much larger GDP - to protect Europe. Fairness!"