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Trump tweet mourns the 'young and beautiful lives ... devastated and destroyed' by the Russia probe

May 27, 2018

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President Trump was working his way through a fairly typical weekend tweetstorm about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling efforts when things took a ... strange turn Sunday morning. Amid lots of more usual fare — "the crooked highest levels of the FBI or 'Justice,'" "#SPYGATE & CONFLICTS OF INTEREST," "13 Angry Democrats," and so on — Trump posted this:

Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation...They went back home in tatters!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2018

In a follow-up tweet, the president did not explain what "young and beautiful" people he has in mind. He is 71.