Special counsel Robert Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey are very close and President Trump says he has the photos to prove it.

The President on Tuesday told right-wing outlet The Daily Caller that he has “100 pictures” of the former G-men “hugging and kissing each other,” insisting their close relationship paved way for the “illegal” investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia.

Trump made the bizarre assertion during a wide-ranging Oval Office interview with the conservative website, which released a full transcript of the conversation Wednesday.

“He’s Comey’s best friend,” Trump said of Mueller, who’s investigating possible collusion between his campaign and the Russian government. “And I could give you 100 pictures of him and Comey hugging and kissing each other.”


It’s not clear how Trump got the photos or what he does with them. A White House spokeswoman did not return a request for comment.

“We’ll decline to comment,” special counsel spokesman Peter Carr told the Daily News.

Donald Trump blows a kiss after speaking at a campaign rally in West Des Moines, Iowa, in 2016. (Jae C. Hong / AP)

Mueller was appointed special counsel after Trump fired Comey in May 2017. In addition to possible collusion, Mueller is looking into whether Comey’s firing could have constituted obstruction of justice on the President’s part because the FBI was already investigating his campaign.


Following the “kissing” comments, the President went off on a familiar diatribe about the supposed illegitimacy of Mueller’s investigation, which has already resulted in nearly 40 indictments against Trump associates and Russians.

“You know I call them ‘the 17 angry Democrats,’” Trump said of the special counsel team, ignoring the fact that Mueller is a longtime Republican. “Honestly, people are very angry about it. People that love our country are very angry about it. So I consider it to be an illegal investigation. It should’ve never been allowed to have happened.”