‘He was the ringleader of this den of thieves’: Trump makes surprise appearance on WH lawn to unleash extraordinary attack on ‘criminal’ Comey following release of bombshell IG report
Trump spent a half-hour on ‘Fox & Friends’ Friday after tweeting that he might make a surprise appearance
He criticized ‘scum’ that was at the top of the FBI during the 2016 election
Said James Comey’s conduct was ‘criminal’ and suggester Peter Strzok should be fired
Damning inspector general report Thursday slammed Comey for being ‘insubordinate’
Also exposed senior FBI officials texting about their hatred for then-candidate Trump and bemoaning Hillary Clinton’s loss
He also covered a wide range of topics including North Korea, the Russia probe, controversial immigration policies and trade with China
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
15 June 2018
President Donald Trump said Friday that James Comey’s actions prior to his firing were ‘criminal’ and called the agency’s past leadership ‘scum’
‘They just seem like criminal acts to me. What he did was criminal,’ Trump said of the fired FBI chief, during an impromptu half-hour appearance on ‘Fox & Friends.’
‘What he did was a terrible thing to the people,’ the president added of the law enforcement nemesis whom he canned in May 2017.
‘What he did was so bad in terms of our Constitution, in terms of the well-being of our country. What he did was horrible.’
But ‘should he be locked up?’ Trump asked. ‘Let somebody make a determination.’
He added that he would personally ‘never want to get involved with that.’
Trump said he’s popular among the FBI’s rank-and-file.
‘I mean the real FBI, not the scum on top.’
He told reporters on his way back to the White House that the ‘real FBI’ is on his side.
‘Those guys love me, and I love them,’ he proclaimed.
Comey has become a one-man Trump wrecking crew this year, promoting a book that casts himself as a moral crusader and Trump as a corrupt autocrat.
The release of a Justice Department inspector general report on Thursday – what Trump called ‘a horror show’ – added more fuel to the White House’s return-fire flamethrower.
The report showed Comey presided over an agency where senior officials talked privately about how much they hated Trump and how far they would go to stop him from winning the White House.
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in particular were faulted for their biases.
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