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Trump Explodes In Monday Morning Tweets, ‘Democrats Can’t Find a Smocking Gun Tying the Trump Campaign to Russia’

Donald Trump is starting the week off with yet another angry tirade, at least judging by his early Monday morning tweet that has been part of a continued effort to undermine the ongoing investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his debasing of former FBI Director James Comey’s private testimony to House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees.

In what appears to be a quote from a Fox & Friends segment that aired Monday morning, Trump wrote “No Smocking (sic) Gun…No Collusion.” The apparent typo has not yet been addressed unless he was referring to “smocking” which is a decoration on a garment created by gathering a section of the material into tight pleats and holding them together with parallel stitches in an ornamental pattern.

Then he followed up with:

Trump also seemed to blame Cohen for any mistake made related to the payment. “Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me,” he wrote.

While Trump and his supporters have said the payments should be seen as a civil case, others have argued that Obama’s was a civil case because it was closer to a paperwork error. In contrast, prosecutors say they have evidence that Trump and Cohen were actively trying to dodge campaign finance laws.

Twitter quickly called Trump out:

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