In fresh rant, Trump takes aim at Mueller, Sessions, FBI, and Clinton
US president accuses federal bureau of ‘ignoring’ emails by former rival candidate, says he ‘may have to get involved’
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday again criticized the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and suggested that “at some point” he “may have to get involved!”
Trump asserted, without providing evidence, that the FBI failed to thoroughly review Clinton’s emails as part of its investigation into her use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state.
The president also tweeted more criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, writing that Sessions “doesn’t understand what is happening underneath his command position.”
Trump accused special counsel Robert Mueller of “having a field day as real corruption goes untouched.”
The tweets cap a bruising week for Trump, with a trio of men who are intimately familiar with his secrets and business dealings now cooperating with prosecutors.
Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD. Also gave false election info. I feel sure that we will soon be getting to the bottom of all of this corruption. At some point I may have to get involved!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2018
“The FBI only looked at 3000 of 675,000 Crooked Hillary Clinton Emails.” They purposely didn’t look at the disasters. This news is just out. @FoxNews
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2018
First, Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, implicated him in testimony about hush money payments to two women who allege affairs with him. On the same day, his former campaign chairman was found guilty on a slew of financial charges.
Then came revelations that his longtime friend, David Pecker, the CEO of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc., had been granted immunity from prosecution to provide information, followed by news that Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg, who had once worked for Trump’s father, was cooperating as well.
There is no indication their cooperation extends beyond the scope of the Cohen probe. But for Trump — who has long demanded loyalty from those around him — the revelations have only added to long-simmering fury about the investigations that began with questions about Russian election meddling but have broadened from there.
Cohen pleaded guilty this week in federal court in Manhattan to campaign finance violations alleging he coordinated with Trump on a hush-money scheme to buy the silence of a porn actress and a Playboy model who alleged affairs. It was later reported that, as part of the probe into Cohen, immunity was granted to Weisselberg and Pecker.
The probe into Cohen was triggered in part by a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who separately is looking into possible Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, has said Cohen has information “that would be of interest” to the special counsel.
Trump, meanwhile, has continued to direct much of his ire at Sessions, who infuriated him by recusing himself from the Russia probe. On Friday, he tweeted at Sessions demanding that he investigate a litany of perceived wrongs, declaring insultingly, “Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!”
Trump has on a number of occasions urged his justice department to investigate his political opponents. His tweet on Friday urged Sessions to “look into all of the corruption on the “other side” including deleted Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr…FISA abuse, Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier, the Clinton Foundation, illegal surveillance of Trump Campaign, Russian collusion by Dems – and so much more. Open up the papers & documents without redaction?”
In June, the Justice Department watchdog issued a stinging report saying that while former FBI Director James Comey was “insubordinate” in his handling of the Clinton email investigation during the 2016 presidential election, there was no evidence he was motivated by political bias.
The report did not second-guess the FBI’s conclusion that Clinton should not have been prosecuted, despite repeated assertions by Trump and his supporters that anyone less politically connected than she would have been charged.
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