Trump Hits Back at 'Corrupt' FBI Investigation Bombshell: 'No Reason' and 'No Proof' [View all]

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Source: Mediaite



by Colby Hall | Jan 12th, 2019, 7:22 am

President Donald Trump is pushing back on Friday’s bombshell New York Times report that the FBI opened an investigation into whether or not Trump may be working for the Russians in the days after he fired former FBI Director James Comey.

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Notably, Trump is not taking aim here at the reporting of the NY Times reporting but instead undermining the institution that oversaw the investigation, or more to the point, the “corrupt former leaders of the FBI, almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons.”

Investigations do not need proof to begin, however. Reasonable evidence is enough to start an investigation, with “proof” of guilt being only one of many possible outcomes. And as the Times report demonstrates, there were many reasons for the FBI to start an investigation.

According to the Times, FBI officials were so alarmed by Trump’s firing of Comey, and the tacit admission that it was due to the investigation into Russian election interference, that “they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests:




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