Trump assails ex-FBI, CIA heads amid reports of criminal probe

US president attacks John Brennan and James Comey amid reports 2 men are nether probe implicit Trump-Russia probe.

United States President Donald Trump has suggested that erstwhile CIA manager John Brennan and ex-FBI main James Comey whitethorn person to “pay a price” amid reports that the 2 men are nether transgression investigation.

Asked astir reports connected Wednesday that Brennan and Comey are being investigated by the FBI, Trump said helium did not cognize thing different than what helium had work successful the news, but helium viewed some arsenic “very dishonest people”.

“I deliberation they’re crooked arsenic hellhole and possibly they person to wage a terms for that,” Trump told reporters during a gathering with African leaders astatine the White House.

“I judge they are genuinely atrocious radical and dishonest people, truthful immoderate happens happens.”

Fox News, which archetypal reported connected the probe, said the 2 men were being scrutinised implicit unspecified “potential wrongdoing” related to investigations into the 2016 Trump campaign’s connections to Russia.

Multiple different outlets, including CNN and The New York Times, confirmed the investigation.

The FBI declined to comment. The US Department of Justice did not respond to a petition for comment.

In an interrogation with MSNBC, Brennan said helium had not been contacted by the authorities, but immoderate probe was “clearly” politically biased.

“I deliberation this is, unfortunately, a precise bittersweet and tragic illustration of the continued politicisation of the quality community, of the nationalist information process,” Brennan said.

“And rather frankly, I’m truly shocked that individuals are consenting to sacrifice their reputations, their credibility, their decency.”

Comey did not respond to a petition for remark sent done his website.

Trump has repeatedly deed retired astatine Brennan and Comey implicit their relation successful what helium has dubbed the “Russia hoax”.

A 2019 study released by peculiar counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Russia interfered successful the 2016 predetermination to payment Trump, but did not find that his run “conspired oregon coordinated” with Moscow.

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