US President Donald Trump’s son suggests that officials serving at “the highest levels of government” are undermining his father’s efforts to take on the US establishment.
Donald Trump Jr. made the comments among a group of young conservatives in Florida on Tuesday.
“There is, and there are, people at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America.”
Trump’s eldest son made the comments as his father and some of his closest allies were being investigated for alleged collusion with Russia by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“My father talked about a rigged system throughout the campaign, and people were like, ‘Oh, what are you talking about?'” Trump Jr. said. “But it is. And you’re seeing it.”
Earlier this month, Mueller dismissed Peter Strzok from his team after his anti-Trump text messages in 2016 were revealed.
Trump’s son asked the audience to “imagine what would happen if we rolled back the clock to…