You simply don’t demand an investigation of the investigation investigating you. It’s the epitome of a politically motivated action, much closer to the autocratic edge of the spectrum.
Marion Berry: “Goddamn setup . . . I’ll be goddamn . . . bitch set me up.”
Trump was evidently referencing a Friday report by the New York Times that the FBI had used an informant in 2016 to talk to Trump advisors it believed “had suspicious contacts linked to Russia.”
Maybe he’s just bored on a Sunday afternoon, but what Trump says he’s going to do is pretty remarkable—he wants to order a Justice Department investigation into a secret FBI source in order to interrupt an investigation into his own campaign. It’s the definition of a politically motivated investigation, and a textbook example of what the president isn’t supposed to do
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and this is irresponsible journalism to lead with this as though it were factual when it is speculative.