Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said opponents of President Donald Trump are spinning a “legalistic nightmare” in order “to block” the president’s agenda and ruin his presidency, during an interview Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week.”

The former House speaker and Trump surrogate addressed the ongoing probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the Left’s desperation to uncover anything that would incriminate Trump and lead to impeachment. Noting that Trump is “infuriated” by all this “Russian baloney,” Gingrich also rebuked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for appointing special counsel Robert Mueller.

“I think Trump sits there and says, ‘Let me get this straight. I know I didn’t do anything with the Russians. [Former FBI Director James] Comey has said three times I didn’t do anything with the Russians. Nobody on Capitol Hill has any proof that I did anything with the Russians. And now I get an independent counsel who is going to mess up at least the next year at a minimum.’ And who, by the way, you’ll notice is expanding his charge,” Gingrich said.

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“Now they’re talking about not the Russians. They’re talking about obstruction,” Gingrich added. “Now they’re talking about going and looking at financial files, if you believe the leak.”

Gingrich referred to a Wednesday Washington Post story alleging that Mueller was expanding the Russia probe to include investigating Trump for potential obstruction of justice following his firing of Comey.

“And I said yesterday, you get two more leaks like this, Rosenstein is going to have to appoint a special counsel to investigate the special counsel,” Gingrich said.

When ABC News reporter Martha Raddatz asked Gingrich if he believed Rosenstein should join Attorney General Jeff Sessions in recusing himself from the Russia probe, Gingrich said, “No.”

“I think this whole game of recusal now, this is a nightmare,” Gingrich said. “And I don’t think people realize this. You have this legalistic nightmare trying to block the Trump presidency on behalf of a department in which 97 percent of the money was given to [former Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary [Clinton], and you want me to believe this is all just random behavior? As a historian, I just don’t believe it.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, dismissed Gingrich’s concerns about Mueller and the lawyers he has been appointing to the probe, who have donated to Democratic candidates over the years.

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“It’s going to take a lot more than a few presidential tweets or Newt Gingrich to try to besmear this very good man,” Schiff said of Mueller during an interview on “This Week.”

Trump has also voiced his frustration regarding the Mueller probe, repeatedly calling it a “witch hunt” in a series of tweets last week.

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Gingrich noted Trump is “infuriated” with the mainstream media, the Democrats and the thus far fruitless narrative of Russian collusion they have been pushing for months.

“He is infuriated, and legitimately, in my judgment, by this whole Russian baloney,” Gingrich said. “And notice how it’s evolving? You started here with Russia. Well, they don’t have anything on Russia. But maybe, maybe there was obstruction. We may not get anything on obstruction, but maybe there’s going to be perjury.”

During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Jay Sekulow, a member of Trump’s legal team, insisted the president “is not under investigation,” despite The Washington Post’s anonymously sourced allegations and Trump’s Friday tweet in which he said, “I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.”

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“Let me be clear: the president is not under investigation,” Sekulow said. “As James Comey said in his testimony, that the president was not the target of an investigation, on three different occasions. The president is not a subject or target of an investigation.”

“That tweet was in response to a Washington Post story that ran with five unnamed sources, without identifying the agencies they represented, saying that the special counsel had broadened out his investigation to include the president. We’ve had no indication of that,” Sekulow added. “That response on social media was in response to the Washington Post piece. It’s that simple. The president is not under investigation.”