Washington – Trump Blasts FBI, Justice Dept Bosses In Showdown Over Republican Memo

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    U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office of the White House upon his return in Washington, U.S., from Greenbrier, WV, February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri GripaWashington – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday accused the FBI and the Justice Department’s top officials of politicizing its investigations as the White House prepared to approve the release of a controversial secret Republican memo alleging FBI bias against him in its Russia probe.

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    “The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans – something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago,” Trump said on Twitter, even as he backed rank- and-file employees.

    Representatives for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department could not be immediately reached for comment.

    The FBI earlier this week expressed “grave concerns about material omissions of fact” in the Republican memo, which was seen as having the potential to prompt high-level resignations in U.S. law enforcement agencies if released.

    FBI Director Christopher Wray was appointed by Trump after the president fired predecessor James Comey. There has been speculation that Wray might resign if Trump allows release of the memo. An association representing FBI agents has backed Wray’s stance.

    A White House official said on Thursday Trump was likely to give Congress approval on Friday to release the document that has gripped Washington and further inflamed tensions between the Republican president and the nation’s top domestic law enforcement agency.

    The four-page document has become a flashpoint in a wider battle between Republicans and Democrats over special counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal probe into potential collusion between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. The probe grew out of the FBI’s Russia investigation after Trump fired Comey.

    Russia has denied collusion and Trump has called the probe a “witch hunt.”


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    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    6 years ago

    Release the memo. The world needs to see how corrupt the FBI and Obama administration were.

    6 years ago

    A bunch of liberal dems who know that it will prove they are on a subjective mission . Liars at the FBI

    qazxc
    qazxc
    6 years ago

    Trump should demand that the FBI question him under oath on live TV and put an end to this whole business once and for all.

    That’s what I would do if I were accused of colluding with Russia and obstructing justice. Nothing to hide, get all the facts out in public.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    6 years ago

    Toxic Trumpf is heading America toward a Constitutional crisis, and only in 1 year. He’ll do anything his malevolent brain can think of to derail the Mueller train that’s coming at him. The autobiographical GOP memo will be forgotten by Monday.

    6 years ago

    Agent orange must be on a death wish or the stupidest president we’ve ever had. Many people have tried to mess with the FBI in the past and it didn’t turn out too well for those people. Now, when you mess with both the FBI and the CIA, you are really asking for it and not even his buddy, Putin, will be be able to bail him out.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    6 years ago

    Why was flynn indicted? Gates under house arrest? Papadopolus pleaded guilty? Etc? GOP memo vs FBI only hurts Orange Menuvil. LOL

    6 years ago

    Sad to see the comments here from the brainwashed people of the lying media. Get the facts before posting.
    The only trump nominee by fbi is Wray. All under him are comey leftovers. Including but not limited to,
    McCabe
    Strock
    Page
    Rybicki
    Orr
    These are deepstate,
    By the doj, the only two appointees is sessions who stupidly in a act of foolish self righteousness, reused himself and him deputy, rosenstein. Who is a career “apolitical” beurocrat. He is to be exposed in this memo.
    So that knocks off half the comments. The other half is that once you launch a investigation it’s not hard to catch someone on a process crime assuming you want to catch them or use them. If it’s true that this is a politically motivated witch hunt than you would never sit down with anyone because they are out to catch you on anything and they can ask him about a transaction from years ago.
    Sad so much misinformation out there that half you guys just don’t know the actual facts.

    yonasonw
    Member
    yonasonw
    6 years ago

    None of us knows what the memos say, and anyone who claims to know is merely repeating his or her fondest partisan sound bites.

    In a sense, Nunes had better be right; for if he’s not, if the FBI Director and DOJ officials are correct and the memo to be released contains material factual distortions, then Nunes and his allies are perpetuating a serious, McCarthy-esque obstruction of justice.

    yonasonw
    Member
    yonasonw
    6 years ago

    Does anyone here believe Educated Archy has a real job?

    If he does, it’s either as a rather illogical Trump propaganda mole, or he’s cheating his employer big time.

    Maybe he’s a bot!

    yonasonw
    Member
    yonasonw
    6 years ago

    Ever notice how Trump base supporters fall in to using slogans pushed by their Great Leader: Lying Press, Fake News, Failing NYT.

    Little different from all the loyal party followers of despots throughout history…Despots using mindless slogans in pursuit of promoting Big Lies.

    Zzzzz
    Zzzzz
    6 years ago

    Liberals are so stupid and self destructive. Instead of thanking the good Lord for how well our country is doing under Pres. Trump, they pay for his defeat so they can get back a traitor and Jew hater like obama y’s into power, someone who shunned Israel and stuck a knife in her back during the end of his presidency, made a deal with Iran which allows them to acquire nukes, secretly have them $140 billion in the dead of night, made us a laughingstock around the world, appeased terrorists, etc. I guess you can’t expect better from people who are too morally and intellectually challenged to know better,