The witch hunt in Washington gets messy

President Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Trump has an "absolute right" to pardon himself, he claims
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President Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller, decrying a "Witch Hunt Hoax" and saying that Mueller's appointment was "unconstitutional". The president also asserted his "absolute right" to pardon himself. He tweeted about his former campaign manager Paul Manafort for the first time since his indictment, says Mark Moore in the New York Post, saying that had he known the FBI was "doing a number on him" he wouldn't have been taken on.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.