NEW: President Trump questions FBI Director Wray's analysis of the IG report: 'With that kind of attitude, he will never be able to fix the FBI, which is badly broken.'
to Horowitz, Wray wrote that the FBI"accepts the Report's findings and embraces the need for thoughtful, meaningful remedial action." Wray added that he"ordered more than 40 corrective steps to address the report's recommendations."
Speaking with ABC News, Wray said he has no evidence that the FBI unfairly targeted Trump's campaign. He alsoback on the theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election — a point that Republicans have increasingly pushed in recent weeks. Horowitz's report concluded the FBI and the Justice Department launched the investigation into Trump not because of politics but because there was sufficient evidence the Russian government was using go-betweens to reach out to the Trump campaign as part of its efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.on that finding, as did U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham, who is leading a separate review of the Russia probe.
Barr said that the probe was launched"on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken." Barr, however, added he had"full confidence" in Wray. Durham, meanwhile, said he has evidence that leads him to disagree with some of Horowitz's conclusions.
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