By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
President Trump lashed out at the FBI and Justice Department and even threatened to intervene in the Russia investigation in a rambling, half-hour interview on “Fox & Friends.”
Trump angrily castigated the Justice Department, saying it should be investigating his enemies, not him.
“I am very disappointed in my Justice Department,” Trump said, adding that it’s an “absolute disgrace” that the FBI is investigating his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and his longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
Trump cited the FBI searches as proof that he is being set.
“That’s not the FBI; that’s a fix,” Trump said.
Trump also said he may back out of his pledge to stay out of the Justice Department investigation.
“I have decided that I won’t be involved. I may change my mind at some point, because what’s going on is a disgrace,” he said.
Raising concerns that he may fire special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Trump called the Russia investigation a “witch hunt with people in the Justice Department who shouldn’t be there.”
Trump once again congratulated himself on firing then-FBI Director James Comey.
“I did a great thing for the American people by firing him,” Trump said. “Look, Comey is a leaker and he’s a liar and not only on this stuff — he’s been leaking for years.”
