Believe Trump or the FBI?

Re “Trump set to OK release of controversial GOP memo,” Feb. 2

I’m at a loss as to whom to believe.

Do I believe President Trump, who says the FBI’s conduct in conducting its counterintelligence investigation was a “disgrace”? The same president who said his tax cut was the biggest ever (way off ) or who said that his inaugural crowd was the biggest and his State of the Union address was watched by the largest audience ever? Who said that he loved Puerto Rico on the same day that the Federal Emergency Management Agency cut off food and water aid? Who claimed there was “substantial evidence of voter fraud” in 2016?

Do I believe House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Tulare), who refuses to disclose if the White House helped him draft his staff ’s memo and refuses to allow the release of the Democratic response?

Or do I believe the FBI and the Department of Justice? To borrow from another fake king, “it’s a puzzlement.”

Ken Goldman Beverly Hills

I recently read the memo by Nunes’ staff in full, and I didn’t see anything that looked worthy of continued classification or of being redacted.

I would like FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to tell us what parts of the memo they believe should have been classified. I would also like them to explain what parts are inaccurate.

It seems that both, plus others who didn't want the memo to see the light of day, were simply trying to cover up a very embarrassing act of FBI political partisanship.

P.J. Gendell Beverly Hills