President Trump on Saturday said that the released GOP memo "totally vindicates" him.
In the wake of the public release of the GOP memo that criticizes the FBI, President Trump posted a tweet on Saturday.
"This memo totally vindicates 'Trump' in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. [There] was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
The president has long dismissed the investigations into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia as a "witch hunt," and more recently has taken to accusing the FBI and the Department of Justice of being biased against Republicans. In a tweet on Friday, he wrote, "The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago." According to the Washington Post, the memo "argues in part that the [Carter] Page warrant, issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), stemmed directly from information conveyed to the FBI by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele. Steele was the author of the reports included in the infamous 'dossier,' which included multiple reports involving Page."
Critics are calling the memo nothing more than an effort to discredit both the Russia investigation and the FBI by asserting the bureau holds a bias against President Trump.
