‘DEN OF THIEVES’

The president disputed findings by the Justice Department that former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe was not politically motivated, declaring that the FBI was biased “at the top level” and “plotting against my election.” The department’s inspector general report, while critical of the FBI and Comey personally, did not find evidence

that political bias tainted the investigation of Clinton’s email practices in the months and days leading up to Trump’s election. But after tweeting that he did a “great service” to the nation by firing Comey, Trump claimed the report “totally” exonerated him. On the inspector general report that found no political bias in the FBI’s final conclusions, he said, “The end result was wrong. There was total bias.” “Comey was the ring leader of this whole, you know, den of thieves. It was a den of thieves,” he said. Trump’s comments followed the IG’s 500-page report that said Comey was “insubordinate” in his handling of the Clinton investigation because he broke agency protocol.