After declaring vindication relating to the FBI's Russia investigation, former director James Comey said he was “wrong” to defend the probe's beginnings.
Days after declaring he was personally vindicated by the inspector general’s report, which concluded the FBI was justified in opening an investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, former FBI Director James Comey admitted he was “wrong” to defend the origins of the probe.
Wallace called “sloppiness” a euphemism and charged Comey with downplaying the significance of the errors in the investigation. "Maybe it turns upon how we understand the word," Comey said, referring to “vindication.”"What I mean is the FBI was accused of treason, of illegal spying, of tapping Mr. Trump's wires illegally, of opening an investigation without justification, of being a criminal conspiracy to defeat and then unseat a president. All of that was nonsense."
Trump, shortly after the report was released, ripped into his FBI director for agreeing with the report’s conclusions, which he said were “far worse than I would have ever thought possible.” Before Trump was sworn into office, a leaked and unverified 35-page dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele alleged the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to defeat Clinton in 2016 presidential election. It later became one of the starting points of Robert Mueller’s investigation.
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