President Trump took to Twitter today to express his disgust in the IG report, calling it a “total disaster.”
Fox News reports, that President Trump crashed “Fox & Friends” for an impromptu interview where he ripped the “scum on top” of the Obama-era bureau and said the IG “blew it.”
The president’s comments came a day after the release of the report, which was the result of an 18-month-long investigation by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Trump said the report, which found ex-FBI Director James Comey was insubordinate, showed Trump was justified in firing him.
President Trump tweeted this morning: “The IG Report is a total disaster for Comey, his minions and sadly, the FBI. Comey will now officially go down as the worst leader, by far, in the history of the FBI. I did a great service to the people in firing him. Good Instincts. Christopher Wray will bring it proudly back!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1007577375905861637
In the interview with Fox’s Steve Doocy, Trump made it clear he considered Comey the leader of those “minions.”
“I think Comey was the ringleader of this whole den of thieves,” Trump said.
“If you took a poll at the FBI, [I would win],” Trump told Doocy. “I mean the real FBI, not the scum on top.”
Trump said Horowitz’s finding of no evidence the FBI probe of Hillary Clinton’s secret email server was influenced by rampant liberal bias showed the inspector general “blew it.”
Horowitz’s report faulted Comey for going over the heads of his superiors, including former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, by holding a press conference to announce the FBI’s decision not to press criminal charges against Clinton. At that July, 2016 news conference, Comey called the then-presidential candidate’s actions “extremely careless,” rather than “grossly negligent,” as drafted in the initial exoneration statement.
Critics have suggested that Trump’s firing of Comey amounted to obstruction of justice, though Deputy Attorney General wrote a recommendation that Comey be fired. Trump reportedly told Russian officials in May, 2017 that Comey was a “real nutjob,” and indicated the firing had to do with “facing great pressure because of Russia,” in an apparent reference to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
Trump later denied that his decision to fire Comey was linked to the Russia probe.
Trump also tweeted about FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who was hell-bent on destroying Trump and any chance he had of becoming President of the United States. Apparently, no one in the media or in the intelligence agency had any problem with the biased, Trump hating FBI agent, Peter Strzok heading up both the Russian and Hillary email investigation
Trump tweeted about the dirty FBI Agent:
FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who headed the Clinton & Russia investigations, texted to his lover Lisa Page, in the IG Report, that “we’ll stop” candidate Trump from becoming President. Doesn’t get any lower than that!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1007572229935202304
