President Trump has “no intention” of firing Robert Mueller as special counsel leading the Russia probe despite doubts about his objectivity, the White House said Friday.

“Nothing’s changed on that in terms of his position,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at an off-camera briefing.

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said last week that Trump does not plan to fire Mueller.

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“While the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so,” Sanders told reporters flying with Trump last Tuesday aboard Air Force One.

Trump appeared to leave the door open to removing Mueller in a new Fox News interview that aired earlier Friday.

He said the former FBI director is “very, very good friends” with his successor, James Comey, whom Trump fired in large part for his handling of the probe into whether his associates colluded with Moscow’s efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump called their friendship “very bothersome.” Asked if Mueller should step aside, Trump said, “We’ll have to see.”

Trump argued that Mueller has hired "Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBloomberg rolls out M ad buy to boost Biden in Florida Hillicon Valley: Productivity, fatigue, cybersecurity emerge as top concerns amid pandemic | Facebook critics launch alternative oversight board | Google to temporarily bar election ads after polls close Trump pledges to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, designate KKK a terrorist group in pitch to Black voters MORE supporters" and people who worked for Clinton's 2016 White House bid to work on his investigation, a situation he called “ridiculous.”

His comments were an apparent reference to several members of Mueller’s investigative team who have donated to Clinton and other Democrats.