President Donald Trump Monday evening ordered the release of all text messages Special Counsel Robert Mueller has from top FBI officials, mostly fired, who Trump has repeatedly targeted and accused of engaging in a “witch hunt!” Among them, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.
Ohr is a current FBI employee.
The president also ordered the declassification of documents related to the Carter Page FISA warrant application process.
(White House statement below.)
All are in an effort to help House Republicans defend President Trump, and help them work to discredit the Mueller investigation.
Trump specified that the text messages must be released “without redaction.”
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