SPUTNIK NEWS - August 30, 2018: The article highlights that US President Donald Trump has slammed Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russiagate as "illegal investigation," adding that "great scholars" have said that "there should never have been a special counsel," Bloomberg reported on Thursday (August 30).

Trump has repeatedly criticised US Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the investigation into alleged Russian imeddling in the 2016 US presidential election campaign. After the recusal, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to lead the probe, which Trump has slammed as "witch hunt."

Trump threatened Thursday (August 30) to "get involved" unless FBI and US Justice Department "start doing their job," US President said at a rally in Indiana.

"Our Justice Department and our FBI — at the top of each, because inside they have incredible people — but our Justice Department and our FBI have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now… I wanted to stay out, but at some point if it doesn't straighten out properly… I will get involved and I'll get in there if I have to," Donald Trump was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Trump has repeatedly criticized the DoJ over its handling of Russiagate and suggested its leadership was biased against GOP, saying that "people are angry."

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