President Donald Trump is set to have a rally in North Carolina the day that former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before Congress. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images 2020 elections Trump to hold rally on Mueller testimony day

President Donald Trump is set to hold a rally on the same day that former special counsel Robert Mueller will make his highly anticipated testimony before Congress.

The Trump campaign lists a rally set for the evening of July 17 in Greenville, N.C., — the day Mueller is scheduled to appear before the House Judiciary and House Intelligence committees to discuss his investigation into the president's election.


The Associated Press first reported the correlating dates.

Mueller had expressed reluctance about testifying before Congress, arguing his findings are detailed in his report. But Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler announced last week that Mueller would appear before the committees.

Trump has decried House Democrats’ efforts to hear from Mueller, dismissing the Russia investigation as a partisan witch hunt that failed to bring up anything conclusive. Though Mueller did not charge the president with any crimes — doing so is against Justice Department policy — the special counsel pointedly did not absolve the president of obstruction of justice, saying during a news conference in May: “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

Trump relaunched his reelection campaign last month in Florida, facing a brimming field of Democratic hopefuls.