WASHINGTON_President Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton Sunday of engaging in "collusion" in order to win last year's Democratic presidential nomination.
Trump's Twitter post did not refer directly to a special counsel's investigation into whether the president's campaign had colluded in the Russian election meddling documented by U.S. intelligence agencies.
But the post implied _ as Trump has repeatedly insisted _ that he is being unfairly maligned over events during and after the 2016 campaign.
In keeping with another of his online habits, Trump coupled a personal attack on an individual with a claim of support. In this instance, he referred to Clinton's rival for the nomination as "Crazy Bernie Sanders" but also asserted that the Vermont senator had not been allowed to fairly contest the Democratic nomination.
Aides, Republican members of Congress and legal advisers have reportedly implored Trump to stop talking about the Russia investigation on Twitter, even indirectly. Last week, the denied the suggestion, also made in a Twitter post, that there might have been "tapes" of his conversations with fired FBI Director James B. Comey.
Trump said Thursday on Twitter that he had no such tapes, while vaguely implying that there might be such electronic surveillance. The White House characterized that as its response to a demand by congressional investigators that the president produce any recordings made by the White House of Trump's conversations with Comey.
