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President TrumpDonald John TrumpForget the spin: Five unrefuted Mueller Report revelations Lara Trump: Merkel admitting migrants ‘one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany’ Financial satisfaction hits record high: survey MORE argued Thursday that former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonForget the spin: Five unrefuted Mueller Report revelations Former senators launching effort to help Dems win rural votes Biden’s announcement was a general election message, says political analyst MORE “destroyed the lives” of his campaign staffers, appearing to refer to the prosecution of former Trump campaign staffers in the now-shuttered special counsel investigation.

During an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Trump argued that the investigation into whether his campaign colluded with the Russian government was an attempted coup to thwart his campaign and end his presidency.

“She’s destroyed the lives of people that were on our campaign,” Trump told Fox.

“This was a coup. This was an attempted overthrow of the United States government … This was an overthrow, it’s a disgraceful thing,” he said.

Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of “destroying the lives of people that were on our campaign. She’s destroyed their lives.”

“This was a coup. This was an attempted overthrow of the United States government,” the president adds, referring to the Mueller probe. pic.twitter.com/Uvfcr1mQeo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 26, 2019

Trump has focused new ire on Clinton in recent days following her remarks earlier this week claiming that Trump would have been indicted for obstructing justice had he not been the sitting president.

“I think there’s enough there that any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted,” Clinton said this week at the Time 100 Summit, citing “the rule in the Justice Department that you can’t indict a sitting president.”

“The whole matter of obstruction was very directly sent to the Congress,” Clinton added. “And if you read that part of the report, it could not be clearer.”

The president frequently criticized the Mueller investigation and top officials at the FBI who originally called the Russia investigation, referring to them as “angry Democrats” on Twitter.

He echoed that criticism Thursday, referring to former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeySessions: It’s time to accept the results of the Mueller report and move on Davis: The shocking fact that Mueller never would have accused Trump of a crime Sarah Sanders is entitled to her opinions, but not her own facts MORE and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabeAndrew George McCabeThe Mueller report concludes it was not needed Ten post-Mueller questions that could turn the tables on Russia collusion investigators Electronic surveillance isn’t spying — it’s much more powerful MORE as “dirty cops” in his interview with Fox News.

Earlier this week, he denied claims made in Mueller’s report stating that he had ordered former White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, one of the most damaging charges in the report.