On Monday hailed a new report from the Justice Department inspector general, claiming it showed FBI officials attempted "An overthrow of government" by investigating his 2016 presidential campaign.
"This was an overthrow of government, this was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it and they got caught, they got caught red-handed," Trump said in the Cabinet Room at the White House during a roundtable event on education.
ADVERTISEMENT. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's lengthy report issued Monday said that FBI agents were not motivated by political bias in deciding to open investigations into Trump campaign associates and aides during 2016 as part of the probe into Russia's election interference, undercutting a key talking point put forth by Trump and his Republican allies.
Horowitz's report also criticized the FBI's handling of applications for warrants to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Republicans have seized on those revelations as evidence of wrongdoing by top officials at the FBI, while Democrats have described the report as bucking Trump's long held claim that the Russia investigation was a politically driven "Witch hunt" against him.
ADVERTISEMENT. Trump, who said he had just been briefed on the contents of the report, said Monday afternoon that details of the report were "Far worse than anything I would have even imagined."
"It's a horrible day for the country that this could happen to the president of the United States," Bondi said, alleging that agents fabricated and falsified emails, lied and omitted exculpatory evidence in order to "Continue this witch hunt" against Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/473731-trump-watchdog-report-shows-fbi-attempted-overthrow-of-government
"This was an overthrow of government, this was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it and they got caught, they got caught red-handed," Trump said in the Cabinet Room at the White House during a roundtable event on education.
ADVERTISEMENT. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's lengthy report issued Monday said that FBI agents were not motivated by political bias in deciding to open investigations into Trump campaign associates and aides during 2016 as part of the probe into Russia's election interference, undercutting a key talking point put forth by Trump and his Republican allies.
Horowitz's report also criticized the FBI's handling of applications for warrants to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Republicans have seized on those revelations as evidence of wrongdoing by top officials at the FBI, while Democrats have described the report as bucking Trump's long held claim that the Russia investigation was a politically driven "Witch hunt" against him.
ADVERTISEMENT. Trump, who said he had just been briefed on the contents of the report, said Monday afternoon that details of the report were "Far worse than anything I would have even imagined."
"It's a horrible day for the country that this could happen to the president of the United States," Bondi said, alleging that agents fabricated and falsified emails, lied and omitted exculpatory evidence in order to "Continue this witch hunt" against Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/473731-trump-watchdog-report-shows-fbi-attempted-overthrow-of-government
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