President Trump exulted Thursday night in new bombshell disclosures of FBI malfeasance into the spying on his campaign in 2016, calling it “a big day” for him in the long-discredited Russian collusion investigation.
“Today a trove of text messages was release from the FBI agents involved in the Russian witch hunt,” the president told supporters at an outdoor campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida. “We caught them. They were trying to do a coup.”
The president told the crowd of thousands, “This was a big day. Never forget, they are coming after me because I am fighting for you.”
Mr. Trump referred to a report in The Federalist, which cited previously hidden FBI text messages. In the texts, agents said were so concerned about the agency’s potentially illegal behavior in probing the Trump campaign that they purchased liability insurance to protect themselves less than two weeks before Mr. Trump was inaugurated president.
“These people are scum… we caught them spying on our nation,” the president said…
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