The charge and expected guilty plea of a former FBI lawyer involved in the probe of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign is “just the beginning,” Trump told reporters on Friday.
“So we have some very interesting news. Kevin Clinesmith, a corrupt FBI attorney who falsified FISA warrants in James Comey’s very corrupt FBI, is expected to plead guilty,” the president announced at the beginning of a press briefing at the White House in Washington.
Clinesmith was charged by U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is delving deep into how the probe into Trump’s campaign unfolded before the Republican was elected president. According to a court filing, Clinesmith removed content from an email he forwarded to an FBI special agent to dramatically change information regarding a former Trump campaign associate from positive to negative.
“That’s just the beginning, I would imagine, because what happened should never happen again,” Trump added.