The president took to Twitter to celebrate that the Nunes memo “totally vindicates” him.

Nunes memo, president tweets, makes case for his claims

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed vindication from a congressional memo that alleges the FBI abused its surveillance powers during the investigation into his campaign’s possible Russia ties.

The four-page document, released Friday, contends that the FBI in its application for a surveillance warrant on a onetime Trump campaign associate relied excessively on a British ex-spy whose opposition research was funded by Democrats. But the memo confirms that the investigation into potential Trump links to Russia began several months earlier and was “triggered” by information involving a different campaign aide.

Christopher Steele, the former spy who compiled the allegations, acknowledged having anti-Trump sentiments. But he was a “longtime FBI source” with a credible track record, according to the memo from the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and his staff.

The warrant authorizing the FBI to monitor the communications of former campaign adviser Carter Page was not a one-time request but was approved by a judge on four occasions, the memo said.

Trump tweeted from Florida, where he was spending the weekend, that the memo puts him in the clear.

“This memo totally vindicates ‘Trump’ in probe,” he said. “But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. There was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!”