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Trump lashes out over Russia probe in angry and error-laden tweetstorm

West Palm Beach, Fla. • President Donald Trump lashed out with fresh anger about the intensifying Russia probe over the weekend, accusing Democrats of enabling a foreign adversary to interfere in the 2016 election and attacking the FBI as well as his own national security adviser.

In a defiant and error-laden tweetstorm that was remarkable even by his own combative standards, Trump stewed aloud about the latest indictments brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Russians for their elaborate campaign to denigrate the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, and push voters toward Trump.

The president seized on Mueller's evidence of the expansive scope of the Russian influence efforts to claim that the indictments exonerated him and proved there was "no collusion.