Trump Blasts FBI's Strzok & Page Over IG Report, Praises Himself For Firing Comey: 'Good Instincts'

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediate



by Aidan McLaughlin | 7:08 am, June 15th, 2018

President Donald Trump weighed in on the newly released inspector general’s report on the FBI’s investigations during the 2016 election, focusing on the texts exchanged between agent-cum-paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

Link to tweet

The text exchange between Strzok and Page has been exhibit A for the FBI’s critics that the agency was rankled with anti-Trump bias during the 2016 election, and the latest text exchange is certainly explicit. A few months before the 2016 election, Page texted Strzok that she feared Trump would win, and he reassured her: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”

Strzok was at the time serving as deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, and was working on the investigation into the Trump campaign’s Russia ties as well as the Clinton email probe. But the inspector general concluded that despite Strzok’s clear and inappropriate bias, the was no evidence that he acted on his disdain for Trump. In a subsequent tweet, Trump took aim at James Comey, calling the IG report “a total disaster” for the former FBI director and “his minions.”

“Comey will now officially go down as the worst leader, by far, in the history of the FBI,” Trump wrote, before praising his “good instincts” for “firing him.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-blasts-comeys-minions-and-fbi-agent-lovers-over-ig-report-praises-new-fbi-director-christopher-wray/

[yallerdawg]

1. Rosenstein basically laid out the IG conclusions regarding Comey before firing.

"Good instincts?"

More documented twitter proof that the Dotard paid no attention to the Rosenstein memo?

It really was just the "Rusher thing," like he told them in the Oval Office.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Joe Scarborough is hopping mad.....

Saying that James Comey was responsible in getting Donald Trump elected. End of story.

[forgotmylogin]

3. I don't understand.

They were having a private conversation about Strzok's work. The IG said their bias didn't affect anything - and I thought I remember a story - wasn't this guy internally moved to make sure of it?

Hypothetically, if police are investigating a serial killer and a detective's girlfriend (who maybe knows some stuff about the case she shouldn't) questions one of them privately "Is the killer going to strike again?" and the detective answers "Don't worry, we're gonna stop him." - does that somehow show bias against the suspect the defense can use to completely throw out the eventual prosecution?

If that were true, it seems a lot more police should be getting kicked out by showing bias and prejudice against innocent subjects who end up riddled with bullets for having a cell phone in their hand.