President Donald Trump, shown with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, has ramped up his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller in recent days, after a quiet few weeks ahead of the midterm elections. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images White House Trump appears to accuse Rosenstein of treason in tweeted meme

President Donald Trump appeared to accuse his own deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, of treason on Wednesday, posting a meme to his Twitter feed that shows an image of Rosenstein and a slew of Trump critics behind bars.

The image also included special counsel Robert Mueller, former FBI Director James Comey, former national intelligence director James Clapper and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Their picture was overlaid with the words, “Now that Russia collusion is a proven lie, when do the trials for treason begin?”


Trump retweeted the image after separately ripping Mueller, whose investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election appears to be closing in on several Trump associates, including longtime ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi.

Trump has ramped up his attacks on Mueller in recent days, after a quiet few weeks ahead of the November midterm elections.

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In the past two days, he’s also revived the assertion that the Hillary Clinton campaign emails — which intelligence agencies concluded were stolen by Russian operatives and funneled to WikiLeaks in 2016 — may not have been stolen at all. He also suggested that Corsi and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort were being pressured by Mueller to lie, though Mueller’s team has accused both men of lying to investigators.