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'McCarthyism at its worst'

Trump lashes out at Russia probe over media reports

AFP, Washington
US President Donald Trump yesterday angrily denounced the federal probe of Russia's 2016 election meddling as "McCarthyism at its WORST!," insisting he had authorised his White House counsel to testify to bring the matter to a close.
Trump's Twitter storm was set off by a front-page report in the New York Times that said White House counsel Don McGahn had provided Special Counsel Robert Mueller with an unusually detailed account of Trump's thinking during key episodes under investigation.
Trump - who had already addressed the issue late Saturday - stepped up his attacks on the story and the probe in a series of angry morning tweets, slamming The New York
Times for implying that McGahn had turned on him.
"I have nothing to hide ... and have demanded transparency so that this Rigged and Disgusting Witch Hunt can come to a close.
"So many lives have been ruined over nothing -McCarthyism at its WORST!"
Mueller is investigating whether the president sought to obstruct justice as well as whether his cam-
paign colluded with Russia's covert effort to sway the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favor.
In more than 30 hours of testimony over the past nine months, the Times said McGahn laid out for investigators Trump's fury over the probe and the ways in which he asked McGahn to respond to it.
Among the episodes he testified to were Trump's firing of former FBI director James Comey, and his obsession with putting a loyalist in charge of the probe, according to the Times. It noted that McGahn played a key role in stoppingTrump from firing Mueller, who was made special counsel after Comey's firing.
Trump called the story a “Fake piece" and seemed particularly incensed at the suggestion that McGahn was a "RAT" like John Dean, the former White House coun-
sel who testified against president Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. McCarthyism is named after the American politician Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s accused many Americans of being Communists.