Klamath Falls, OR— What they said, President Donald Trump and his supporters have blasted the FBI over its “integrity” but they certainly loved the nation’s top investigative agency when it focused on Democrat Hillary Clinton’s private email server probe weeks before Election Day last year.
The then-presidential candidate and those within in his campaign had nothing but praise for the FBI after it re-opened the investigation into Clinton’s emails as secretary of state days before the election.
Most notably, former campaign senior adviser and now Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders chastised those in the Clinton camp who were “attacking the FBI” and then-Director James Comey.
“When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing,” Sanders tweeted on November 3, 2016, five days before the election.
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest child, also tweeted a story citing former campaign manager turned White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway’s assertion that Clinton was not fit to be president because of the FBI investigation.
Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNBC the FBI's renewed interest in Hillary Clinton's emails shows the Democratic nominee is "unfit" to be president.
"If this election is a referendum on Hillary Clinton, she loses," Conway said on "Squawk Box," said days after FBI Director James Comey announced the new probe. "And now it is again a referendum on Hillary Clinton."
"I think people have been asking the right questions about the wrong candidate," Conway said, referring to criticism of Trump.
"Who really is unqualified, who's unfit to be president? Who has shown what they'd do with their national security information?" she asked rhetorically.
Conway, too, on the very day Comey made his announcement declared: “Most honest people I know are not under FBI investigation, let alone two.”
Even former campaign official and Trump’s first press secretary Sean Spicer pointed out the hypocrisy within the Clinton campaign for challenging Comey, a tactic Trump and his current team are presently using.
The Clinton camp is "asking for information they're not going to get," Conway told CNBC. "Secondly, and most importantly, they're trying now to politicize the FBI."
The Justice Department opposed Comey's plan to notify Congress about the new, potentially relevant Clinton emails, sources familiar with the discussion told NBC News. In the end, Comey decided it was better not to wait until after the election to notify Congress.
Then-Republican candidate Trump used a combination of blasting the “dishonest media” and propping up the FBI in order to bury Clinton.
“Wow, Twitter, Google, and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media!,” he tweeted October 30, 2016.
Trump has routinely flip-flopped his support for the FBI. In October he claimed Comey “was the best thing that ever happened” to Clinton.
But Trump evidently believed his dismissal of Comey in May, which led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, would actually bring cheers from Democrats.
FBI agents raided the New York home and offices of President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen on Monday following a referral from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
The purpose of the raid remains unclear, but a source close to Cohen said the FBI seized documents related to the Stormy Daniels matter, as well personal, financial and banking records dating back to 2013. They also seized his electronic devices, the source said.
President Trump reacted to news at a meeting with senior military leadership at the White House, describing the raid as a break-in to reporters and calling it “a disgraceful situation” and “a total witch hunt.”
Cohen has come under scrutiny after acknowledging that he made a $130,000 payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels as she was shopping her story of an alleged affair with Trump in 2006 to major media outlets shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump in March arguing that the so-called hush agreement, the existence of which was first revealed by The Wall Street Journal, is invalid because Trump never signed it.
Cohen has said that he paid the $130,000 out of his own pocket and that neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was involved in the transaction. Trump recently denied any knowledge of the payment and referred inquiries to Cohen, but Daniel’s attorney Michael Avenatti continues to insist that Trump “absolutely knew” about the agreement.
"We very much look forward to testing the truthfulness of Mr. Trump's feigned lack of knowledge concerning the $130k payment as stated on Air Force One," Avenatti wrote on Twitter following Trump’s comments. "As history teaches us, it is one thing to deceive the press and quite another to do so under oath.
Now what was the GOP doing on the new website they created Lyin' Comey to try and discredit Comey and saying the following, "What they said"? Makes you wonder what universe they live in, doesn't it?
Why Republicans want a Republican to be FBI chief "Lyin' Comey" (Part Two)
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