Trump pal slams Russia investigation as a ‘fake allegation’

WASHINGTON – Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy Sunday slammed the Russia collusion investigation as a “fake allegation in search of a crime” but urged President Trump to allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller to continue his probe.

“I don’t think he should fire Robert Mueller or (Deputy Attorney General Rod) Rosenstein,” Ruddy, a Trump confidante, told CNN’s Reliable Sources.

Ruddy said he visited Trump this weekend in Florida and the president is “very frustrated” by the Mueller probe. But Trump should remember he can employ his pardon power if he doesn’t like Mueller’s result, Ruddy said.

“My view is the President should wall himself off from this,” Ruddy said. “None of the crimes that have been involved so far with Mueller involve his campaign or impact him. The president should stay away from it.

“If at the end of these prosecutions, the president feels some of these people have been mistreated or the investigations have been unfair, he can always exercise a pardon.”

Ruddy accurately said in June on PBS’s Newshour that Trump was thinking about terminating Mueller, though Ruddy cautioned Trump would make a “mistake” if he ousted the “man of integrity.”

Despite the cloud of the Russia probe, Ruddy said Trump is enjoying a bump in the polls after his State of the Union address and positive business headlines after his tax reform bill was signed into law.

“The president is doing some amazing stuff and he’s feeling it,” the Trump whisperer said.