FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, alongside Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz about a report on the Bureau’s handling of the Clinton and Trump investigations.
Wray was asked about a claim President Donald Trump has been making for months: that special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia is a “witch hunt”. He recently used the IG report, which found instances of anti-Trump bias by certain FBI agents, completely discredits the Mueller probe.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (R-VT) asked Wray about Trump’s claims that the Mueller probe has been “totally discredited” by the IG report, a claim the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani echoed on cable news.
“The Special Counsel investigation has already resulted in an indictment of 20 individuals and three Russian companies,” Leahy continued. “Do you have any reason to believe that this investigation has been discredited?”
“Senator, as I said to you last month and as I said before, I don’t believe Special Counsel Mueller is on a witch hunt,” Wray replied.
Comey gave Strozk his marching orders. Mueller is Comey’s best friend. Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018
WITCH HUNT! There was no Russian Collusion. Oh, I see, there was no Russian Collusion, so now they look for obstruction on the no Russian Collusion. The phony Russian Collusion was a made up Hoax. Too bad they didn’t look at Crooked Hillary like this. Double Standard!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 17, 2018
Is this Phony Witch Hunt going to go on even longer so it wrongfully impacts the Mid-Term Elections, which is what the Democrats always intended? Republicans better get tough and smart before it is too late!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2018
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He also seems to believe that a day off in some fluffy starbucks-like sensitivity training will alleviate deep seated deep state bias, criminal activity, and mainstream media leaking and collusion.
This guy should be the busboy at a low budget restaurant, not the head of a federal agency.
“The Special Counsel investigation has already resulted in an indictment of 20 individuals and three Russian companies,”
And all of those could have been indicted without a “Special Counsel”, as none-of those had anything to do with Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
No one has accused Trump or anyone else of Witchcraft. It isn’t even a Federal offense (though it still is illegal in some states, including Maryland). In fact, there appears to be nothing even remotely magical about Trump.
He is guilty of frequently ignoring the constitution, following a tradition so well established among modern presidents that it is arguably “minhag” (which actually means something in a common law system), and of making politically incorrect statements, and of being rude and disrespectful to his betters (among that bi-coastal elites, especially in Hollywood and Wall Street and the Tech industries), though be disrespectful to your social betters was decriminalized in the late 18thg century (it had been “petty treason”).
The witch hunt is catching lots of witches! Guilty pleas from the highest echelons of the campaign!
guilty of what rt?”colluding” with ukranians in 2006? give me a break!