Trump goes on tweet attack against FBI
‘Laughing their asses off in Moscow,’ he says
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lashed out at the
FBI and suggested that the Russia election-meddling investigation impeded an opportunity to stop the teenage shooter in last week’s Florida school massacre.
In a series of 15 Twitter posts over 19 hours late Saturday and early Sunday, Trump said it was “very sad” that the FBI missed clues from Nikolas Cruz, accused of the school attack, because the agency was preoccupied with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign.
“This is not acceptable,” Trump wrote. “They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign — there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!”
Later he wrote that Russians “are laughing their asses off in Moscow” because they had “succeeded beyond their wildest dreams” in sowing discord in the U.S.
The Twitter posts appeared to be a response to Friday’s FBI indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian companies accused of orchestrating a secret campaign using social media to undermine the candidacy of Hillary Clinton while promoting Trump.
The tweets combined criticisms of the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller and the
FBI’S acknowledged failure to pursue tips it received about Cruz’s plans.
Trump also took a swipe at his national security adviser, H.R. Mcmaster, who said Saturday that the indictment proved that Russian meddling was beyond dispute.
“General Mcmaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians,” Trump wrote before launching into an accusation that it was Clinton who colluded with the Russians.
Mcmaster spoke at an international security conference in Munich, which was also attended by senior Russian officials. The Russians called the Mueller indictment “blabber” and fantasy.