2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [6-15-18] that a new internal Justice Department report proved there had been F.B.I. bias against him ahead of the 2016 presidential election, citing ‘vicious’ texts between investigators and findings that he said illustrated ‘criminal’ behavior by the bureau’s former director. In a wide-ranging interview on Friday morning with ‘Fox and Friends,’ Mr. Trump said that he did not want to get involved in Justice Department matters but that what the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey had done ‘was a terrible thing to the people…’ The inspector general report, released on Thursday [6-14-18], covered the F.B.I.’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and was anxiously awaited by Mr. Trump. It concluded that Mr. Comey was insubordinate and broke with longstanding policy in his handling of the Clinton email investigation. But it found no evidence that Mr. Comey showed political bias in his oversight of the investigation. The report made no accusations of criminal wrongdoing.”
-Eileen Sullivan, “Trump Calls Justice Dept. Report ‘Total Disaster’ for Fired F.B.I. Director,” The New York Times online, June 15, 2018