WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump’s legal team has prepared a response to Robert Mueller’s probe that features the president’s favorite conspiracy-theory villains, from Peter Strzok and his lover to those who financed a dossier that Trump falsely claims sparked the investigation against him. Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele and Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyers will all be covered in the report, which Trump boasted was “already 87 pages” in a tweet Friday morning. When asked Friday whether the report would attack the various players involved in the investigation, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told HuffPost: “You’re damned right we are. I can’t imagine how we wouldn’t.” Strzok was an FBI agent and Page a Justice Department lawyer involved in the early phase of the special counsel’s investigation who wrote each other a number of text messages expressing alarm that someone they viewed as unqualified and unhinged could become president. Nellie Ohr works with the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was contracted first by Republicans and later by Democrats to explore Trump’s ties to Russia. Bruce Ohr is her husband, a Justice Department lawyer, and Steele is a former British intelligence agent who researched and wrote what Trump likes to call the “Dirty Dossier.”

Trump and his allies repeatedly claim, falsely, that the unverified intelligence tidbits contained in Steele’s report were the basis of the FBI investigation into Trump. But that probe began in the summer of 2016 based on tips from Western European intelligence agencies reporting that Russian operatives appeared to be in contact with Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump and Giuliani’s approach, which tries to discredit the people and the process behind the investigation rather than its findings, has been fodder for the Fox News shows that Trump watches religiously and for House intelligence committee Republicans since the investigation became public a year and a half ago. Giuliani defended that tactic, saying that the facts of how the investigation proceeded were a legitimate target of criticism because they became the basis for what he called an inappropriate surveillance warrant on a Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page. “I could write a whole book,” he said. Trump and his team have repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Page warrant was based primarily on the Steele dossier and that it became the foundation on which the Russia probe was built. Giuliani added that Trump was correct that the rebuttal report runs about 87 pages, but that some sections of it may be left out of what his legal team releases, depending on the contents of Mueller’s eventual report. Giuliani said that apart from the facts he alleges tainted the investigation from the start, he also makes legal arguments against the anticipated allegations against Trump. On the matter of obstruction of justice, for instance, where Mueller is examining Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey four months after taking office, Giuliani said Trump had every right to fire Comey. “As a matter of law, there can’t be obstruction in this case,” he said.

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