It isn’t news that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been conducting an internal investigation on the Trump administration. However, President Donald Trump and his legal team responded to the DOJ-issued reports.
According to the Huffington Post, the DOJ’s inspector general submitted a 500-page report regarding the role of senior FBI officials during the presidential election. As CNN adds, the extensive investigates claims that two FBI employees wanted to prevent Trump from becoming president.
Following these allegations in the DOJ official report, Trump used his Twitter to respond. “FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who headed the Clinton & Russia investigations, texted to his lover Lisa Page, in the IG Report, that ‘we’ll stop’ candidate Trump from becoming President. Doesn’t get any lower than that,” Trump tweeted early Friday morning.
FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who headed the Clinton & Russia investigations, texted to his lover Lisa Page, in the IG Report, that “we’ll stop” candidate Trump from becoming President. Doesn’t get any lower than that!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018
But what exactly did Strzok text to Page? CNN reports that Page initially texted “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right,” to Strzok. In response, Strzok wrote, “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” Yikes.
Huff Post notes that one of FBI Agent Strzok’s text messages was highlighted in the DOJ’s report. The text message was between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page; however, the DOJ inspector general claims that this particular text message was “indicative of a biased state of mind.”
Though Page doesn’t work for the FBI, The Hill reports that, following an internal investigation, Mueller removed Strzok from his team of investors.
While Trump is criticized certain FBI employees that were mentioned in the DOJ’s report, certain members of Trump’s legal team are criticizing Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation. Fox News notes that yesterday Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giulani requested that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be removed from his role in the investigation on Russia’s involvement in Trump’s presidential campaign.
“Tomorrow, Mueller should be suspended and honest people should be brought in, impartial people to investigate these people like Strzok,” Giuliani said. “…Strzok should be in jail by the end of next week.”