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Doubles down: FBI ‘spied’ on campaign

President Trump continued to attack the Justice Department Friday — reiterating his charge Thursday that the feds planted a “spy” in his 2016 presidential campaign, a claim his own lawyer admits might not be true.

“Apparently the DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign. This has never been done before and by any means necessary, they are out to frame Donald Trump for crimes he didn’t commit. Really bad stuff !” the commander in chief tweeted shortly before 5:30 a.m. Friday morning.

Three hours later, Trump upped the ante, tweeting that the FBI was behind the infiltration — and calling it “the all time biggest political scandal!”

“Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a ‘hot’ Fake News story,” he tweeted. “If true - all time biggest political scandal!”

Trump offered no evidence to support his contentions.

The accusations came after one of the president’s lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, said this week that Team Trump would go on the attack against special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation of Russian meddling in the election after the one-year anniversary of the probe.

“Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT,” Trump charged Thursday in a tweet.

Giuliani said Friday that neither he nor Trump knew whether the president’s theory was true.

“I don’t know for sure, nor does the president, if there really was one,” Giuliani said on CNN of a possible mole.

He claimed that he and Trump had been told by some unidentified person that there was “some kind of infiltration.”

The president’s legal team had been “told that” by people “off the record,” Giuliani said.

The Washington Post Friday night identified the informant as a retired US professor who cozied up to Trump foreign-policy adviser Carter Page and campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis in 2016.

That professor has been a longtime US intelligence source and played some kind of role in the probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, sources told the newspaper.

Last week, National Review’s Andrew McCarthy raised the question of a possible FBI spy in Trump’s campaign.

The New York Times reported this week that at least one government informant met several times with Page and George Papadopoulos, both ex-foreign-policy advisers on Trump’s campaign.

In a tweet Thursday, Trump cited National Review suggesting that the FBI source was really a “confidential informant in the campaign.”