President Donald Trump attacked his own FBI in a series of tweets on Sunday morning and revealed the law enforcement agency’s reputation is “in tatters.”
The president was responding to reports that a past master FBI counterintelligence agent was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s crew investigating Russian election meddling because of anti-Trump text dispatches.
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He said after years under fired FBI director James Comey, “with the phony and fraudulent Clinton investigation (and more),” the agency’s reputation “is in tatters – naughtiest in history!'” The president also retweeted a tweet suggesting FBI Impresario Chris Wray “needs to clean house.”
The president said earlier Sunday he not in any degree asked Comey to stop investigating ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn.