President Donald Trump has repeatedly called special counsel Robert Mueller's probe a "witch hunt." | Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images Trump: Lives have been 'devastated and destroyed' by Russia probe

President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that the Russia probe has "devastated and destroyed" the reputations of people, continuing his weekend Twitter assault against the Robert Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation. ... They went back home in tatters," the president wrote on Twitter.


Trump has repeatedly called special counsel Mueller's probe a "witch hunt," a charge that in recent weeks has been coupled with renewed calls from his allies to end the probe soon. Some House lawmakers have gone even further, arguing that reports stating a confidential FBI informant met with Trump campaign officials means the investigation is irrevocably tainted.

"With Spies, or 'Informants' as the Democrats like to call them because it sounds less sinister (but it’s not), all over my campaign," Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday, "even from a very early date, why didn’t the crooked highest levels of the FBI or ‘Justice‘ contact me to tell me of the phony Russia problem?"

It's unclear who Trump is referring to when he says individuals "went back home in tatters." A score of former campaign aides have reportedly met with Mueller's team along with congressional investigators — racking up significant legal bills in the process.

Mueller has so far secured at least five guilty pleas, including from former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and former campaign aide Rick Gates. Papadopoulos' conversation with an Australian diplomat about getting "dirt" on Hillary Clinton has been reported to be the impetus for the FBI's original investigation into the president's campaign. That probe has become the Mueller investigation.

The president has attacked the investigation throughout Memorial Day weekend, returning to some of his favorite lines of attack, including the political affiliations of members of Mueller's team and claiming that the question of Russian interference was made up by Democrats after losing the 2016 campaign. Some of those attacks were echoed by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” that there was no justification for the Mueller probe to continue.