Question. What do you call an investigation that, even before its conclusion, has resulted in …
… a federal inquiry into the U.S. president's son-in-law's real estate dealings; an indictment of the president's former campaign chairman; an indictment of, and subsequent guilty plea by, the former campaign chairman's associate and protégé; a guilty plea by a London-based attorney in relation to the former campaign chairman's protégé; a guilty plea by the president's former national security adviser; a guilty plea by a foreign-policy adviser to the president's campaign; a guilty plea by a California man who sold bank accounts to Russians; indictments of 13 Russians and three Russian companies that assisted the president's 2016 campaign; the seizing of documents held by the president's personal attorney, who's suspected of bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations; and the special counsel's pursuit of the commander in chief for an "interview" to determine charges of obstruction of justice?
If you're the president of the United States, you call it a "witch hunt."
You also call the FBI's legal entry for the purpose of document seizures — with a scrupulously evaluated search warrant in hand — a "break in": you add that the legal entry was a "disgraceful situation"; you denounce your attorney general for having recused himself, as Justice Department rules demand; you badmouth the deputy attorney general for also doing his job; you excoriate the FBI for not investigating a political opponent, whom the FBI had already investigated and cleared — twice; you defame a universally respected special counsel and his irreproachable investigative team as "the most biased group of people" in possession of nothing but partisan aims; and you characterize their efforts as "a whole new level of unfairness."
You also declare their efforts to be an "attack on our country," while you fastidiously avoid leveling any such charge against the enormously hostile Vladimir Putin.
Finally, as an attack on our country in a real "true sense," you announce the constitutional crisis you're about to commence: "We’ll see what may happen. Many people have said [I] should fire him," Robert Mueller.
I've no doubt he will. And doing so while dashing cruise missiles over Syria would be an excellent time for it.