IG Proves Mueller Probe ‘Totally Discredited,’ Comey Acts Were ‘Criminal’

C-SPANDonald Trump says his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey is vindicated by the report that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released yesterday.

Initially when Comey was sacked, the Trump administration presented the dismissal as related to his handling of the Clinton email probe.

By Trump’s own “partisanship equals bias” logic, these people should be helping him rather than investigating him. “We’ve already referred conduct highlighted in the report to our disciplinary arm … the FBI’s independent Office of Professional Responsibility”.

But Trump has ramped up his language on the report and has trained his sights on Comey in particular.

But when he was pressed on the North Korea issue by CBS News reporter Weija Jiang, Trump told her to “be quiet” and called her “obnoxious”, according to a Yahoo! “We concluded that Comey’s unilateral announcement was inconsistent with Department policy and violated long-standing Department practice and protocol by, among other things, criticizing Clinton’s uncharged conduct”, the report says.

When Trump fired Comey last May, the handling of the Clinton investigation was cited as reason.

President Trump is right: It looks awful that an FBI agent involved in both the Hillary Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations privately texted this to someone: “We’ll stop” [Trump from becoming president].

Strzok and Page would go on to work for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “Russiagate” investigation, before being let go for their partisan text messages.

FBI Director Christopher Wray at a Senate hearing in May.

“I mean, when you look at Peter Strzok and what he said about me, when you look at [James] Comey and all his moves. The FBI handled the investigation in a way that was very problematic for Clinton and complicated her life immensely”. Also, Mueller reports to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee.

Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s lawyer, said the report found no evidence that his political views had an impact on the Clinton probe. “They were plotting against my election”, Trump said in the Fox News interview, referring to people in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Comey said had he known earlier about the laptop’s import, it might have affected his decision to notify Congress.

Obama said in a 2015 interview with CBS News that he first learned of Clinton’s use of the private server “at the same time everybody else learned it through news reports”.

That message was just the latest of many that have raised questions about the FBI’s impartiality before and after Trump’s election in 2016. Strzok, who was romantically involved with Page, was a lead investigator on the Clinton case and later worked the Russian Federation probe before being removed.

Agents are permitted to vote and have political preferences, but investigators asked whether the messages showed bias that could harm the “integrity” of the Clinton probe.