In February 2018 , when Special Counsel Mueller indicted more than a dozen Russians and three entities for interference in the 2016 election , Trump 's response was to assert that the indictment was proof his campaign did not collude with the Russians . '' The New York Times '' noted Trump " voiced no concern that a foreign power had been trying for nearly four years to upend American democracy , much less resolve to stop it from continuing to do so this year " . A day after the indictment , Trump used the FBI 's alleged failure to stop the Stoneman Douglas High School shooter to call for the end to investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election
Stoneman Douglas High School shooter
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
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