Tag: James Comey

Trump has no plans to fire Rod Rosenstein following reports that the Justice Department official considered secretly recording the president.

President Donald Trump believes his efforts to purge the FBI of biased top officials is part of his presidential legacy, he said in an interview published on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump regrets letting FBI director James Comey remain in his position, admitting in an interview he should have fired him sooner.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders cited “reasons of transparency” for the president’s decision, as well as requests from Congressional investigative committees, to declassify Russia investigation documents.

A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shows that a full 59 percent of registered voters believe former CIA Director John Brennan should have lost his security clearance.

In a Tuesday evening appearance on the Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) said Bruce and Nellie Ohr’s ties to Trump dossier author Christopher Steele were absent from the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications he analyzed.

Sunday, the author of the Government Accountability Institute’s “Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption,” Seamus Bruner, discussed how former FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller both profited by using their relationship as a revolving door to

“Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Also gave false election info. I feel sure that we will soon be getting to the bottom of all of this corruption.”

Seamus Bruner, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) researcher and author of Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, explained how former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller leveraged their government positions to enrich themselves.

Seamus Bruner, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) researcher and author of Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, explained how former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller leveraged their government contacts to enrich themselves. He joined Peter Schweizer, GAI president and Breitbart News senior editor-at-large, for an interview on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), explained how former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller leveraged their government positions for self-enrichment. He joined his colleague Seamus Bruner, a GAI researcher, to discuss the latter’s forthcoming book, Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, in a Friday interview with Sean Hannity.

“The Rigged Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on as the ‘originators and founders’ of this scam continue to be fired and demoted for their corrupt and illegal activity,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) reacted to the firing of FBI agent Peter Strzok by stating that President Trump is “engineering a fear campaign within the FBI” against anyone who will stand up

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders explained a tweet from President Donald Trump on Wednesday as his “opinion,” not a direct order for Attorney General Jeff Sessions regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Judiciary Committee member Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) stated he welcomed Republicans on the committee bringing back former FBI Director James Comey to testify before the committee and he welcomes Comey telling “his story

Fox News Channel legal analyst Gregg Jarrett, author of The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump, described the “Trump-Russia collusion” as “an effort to undo the election.” He offered his remarks during a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Breitbart News Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Robert Mueller is reportedly combing through President Donald Trump’s tweets for evidence that the president has obstructed the Russia investigation. 

NEW YORK — Amid reports that President Trump is exploring the possibility of removing security clearances from former top officials from the Obama administration, it may be instructive to take a closer look at former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s recently released book.

Late Show host Stephen Colbert ripped President Donald Trump’s threat to take away certain individuals security clearances on Tuesday, describing him as a “racist, horny old burger-goblin who steals children from poor people.”

Ex-FBI Director James Comey is asking his Twitter followers to consider why President Trump has yet to publicly criticize Putin.

“Not only is the president looking to take away Brennan’s security clearance, he’s also looking into the security clearances of Comey, Clapper, Rice and McCabe,” Sanders said during the White House press briefing.

Former FBI director James Comey made an impassioned plea Sunday evening on Twitter, begging Democrats not to move to the “socialist left” because doing so would help Republicans in the midterm elections.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) described last week’s grand jury indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence operatives — via allegations and information presented by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team — as part of “a game to get the public to see something that isn’t there.”

NEW YORK — There are numerous basic flaws in the central piece of “evidence” offered by FBI agent Peter Strzok as proof of his integrity and his lack of bias against Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

FBI agent Peter Strzok’s text to FBI lawyer Lisa Page hours after FBI Director James Comey was fired that said they needed to “open the case we’ve been waiting on” now that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was in charge was related to the Trump-Russia investigation, according to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

“Certainly I can’t have any confidence in the past,” Trump said, citing the “all of the shenanigans that have gone on” in the intelligence community under former President Barack Obama.

Fired FBI Director James Comey is urging Americans to support Democrat candidates in the midterm elections this fall.

A Republican lawmaker says the testimony of former FBI attorney Lisa Page before House investigators differed greatly from her lover and bureau special agent Peter Strzok.

Dan Pfeiffer, a former top aide to President Barack Obama, told The Daily Beast in an interview released Thursday that he doesn’t believe Congress will impeach President Donald Trump. 

During an interview with the UK’s iNews former FBI director James Comey called for more controls on the types of guns and sizes of ammunition magazines sold the US and suggested the NRA propagates “lies.”

President Trump currently enjoys a higher approval rating than the embattled FBI and its disgraced former director, James Comey.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” George Washington Law Professor Jonathan Turley stated that after the DOJ Inspector General’s report, the claim that President Trump obstructed justice by firing James Comey “just won’t hunt,” and

Sen. Grassley said in a letter FBI Director Wray that “it’s disturbing” that James Comey had a private email account while investigating Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

FBI Director Christopher Wray held a press conference Thursday to address the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) sometimes damning report on misconduct during the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation.

President Donald Trump reacted to the Inspector General report from the Justice Department on FBI Director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s email case.