President Donald Trump isn’t undercutting the FBI or the Department of Justice’s Russia investigation by demanding a probe into the use of a government informant to gain information on the Trump campaign before the 2016 election.
He’s just “cleaning everything up,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
“No, no. We’re not undercutting, We’re cleaning everything up,” trump said. “This was a terrible situation. What we’re doing is we’re cleaning everything up. It’s so important. What I’m doing is a service to this country.”
Trump: "We're not undercutting" the DOJ with IG probe request. "We're cleaning everything up." pic.twitter.com/OOZ4QNFfVa
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) May 23, 2018
Since The New York Times first reported last week that an informant met with members of Trump’s campaign, Trump has seized on the news as evidence of a broader bias against him within the FBI and DOJ and has relentlessly called the informant a “spy,” deeming the whole ordeal “spygate” on Wednesday.
SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
In reality, the informant reportedly spoke with two Trump campaign officials — Carter Page and George Papadopoulos — as a facet for quietly probing Russian interference in the election without compromising the vote.
Trump tweeted Sunday a “demand” for a probe into whether the FBI’s hiring of an informant to meet with Trump officials was politically motivated. The Justice Department then asked the inspector general to look into it.
JH Christ on a buttered bagel
One goddamn jaw dropper after another today.
Please no more winning today
David Frum said it best on Twitter:
"We need a House investigation of how Obama lured so many of Donald Trump’s closest associates into lives of crime"
The newest version of Clue by Hasbro:
Donald Trump. In America. With the dumbfuckery.
One of the two dumbest things he has said or tweeted today - given the newscycle:
Terming the investigation as “Spygate” was the first one - Given how many spies (covert agents for foreign governments) keep being disclosed to have been involved with his campaign - and in the early transition period (and later). Way to brand the cycle - Dotard - so that the core issue of the damning problems that led to an investigation is front and center - everytime anyone uses the term you coined. Brilliant. If you were working to take down Trump in the Public Opinion arena.
And this “Cleaning Everything Up”- on the day when we learn more about how many people have been making hundreds of millions of dollars selling access (or worse) to you and your administration. Maybe you listened to one lecture in one of your highschool literature classes when Orwell and double speak was explained.