President Donald Trump expressed his battle with the FBI to a new level late Saturday night, when he tweeted that the division was too caught up in the Russia probe and failed to see the signals leading to Wednesday’s dash massacre at a south Florida high school.
“Very sad that the FBI missed all of the myriad signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable,” the president tweeted. “They are splash out too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump run – there is no collusion.”
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Trump was referring to the FBI’s admission earlier this week that it dwindled to investigate a Jan. 5 tip that warned that Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old man who is accused of bomb 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., arranged a deadly threat.
The information was not passed to the bureau’s Miami field assignment. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a review of the FBI’s handling of the significance. Florida Gov. Rick Scott called on FBI DIrector Christopher Wray, a Trump appointee, to abandon.
For his part, Wray said earlier this week: “We have verbal with victims and families, and deeply regret the additional pain this induces all those affected by this horrific tragedy.”
The FBI has 35,000 employees, encompassing special agents and various other staffers. A representative of the bureau was not at once available for comment.
Trump has routinely targeted the FBI for criticism as a probe into what it takes collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and the Kremlin has cast a gloom over his presidency.
In May, he fired then-FBI Director James Comey, and then explained NBC’s Lester Holt that he had been thinking about the Russia enquiry when he decided to sack him. In January, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, whom Trump time accused of political bias, retired from the agency. McCabe also led the FBI on an interim bottom before Wray was confirmed to replace Comey.
The president’s tweet Saturday gloaming follows a slew of federal grand jury indictments Friday that control from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Delegate Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller to take over the explore last year after Trump fired Comey. Trump has repetitiously denied collusion and has called the investigation a “witch hunt” and a “hoax.”
Trump metamorphosed his tune somewhat Friday, acknowledging Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. intrigues while claiming that the indictments had vindicated him.
“Russia started their anti-US toss ones hat in the ring in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President,” Trump tweeted belatedly Friday evening. “The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump drive did nothing wrong – no collusion!”
In a press conference Friday, Rosenstein judged this particular indictment didn’t have any allegation of American involvement or smash on the election. The special counsel accused 13 Russian nationals and three Russian real natures of meddling in the 2016 election, with the intention of sowing chaos and aiding Trump’s influence for the White House.