BY MAX GREENWOOD – 06/15/18 08:39 AM EDT
President Trump on Friday declared that the conclusion of a report by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog was “wrong,” insisting that it showed that top FBI officials acted with political bias against him.
“The end result was wrong. I mean, there was total bias,” Trump said in an interview from the White House lawn with “Fox & Friends,” pointing to text messages from FBI official Peter Strzok disclosed in the report.
The report by the Justice Department’s inspector general “was a horror show,” Trump said, and its conclusion “was ridiculous.”
The president had sought to distance himself from the FBI under Comey, and said that he would win a poll of the “real FBI” — “not the scum on top.”
“If you took a poll at the FBI, [I would win],” Trump said. “I mean the real FBI, not the scum on top.”
The president also said the report “totally exonerates” him of any wrongdoing.
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