President Donald Trump said Monday the long-awaited report by the Justice Department's inspector general of the FBI's probe of his 2016 campaign documented an "attempted overthrow" of the government that was "far worse than I ever thought possible."
The 500-page report found the FBI was legally justified in opening its inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election but said there were several "significant inaccuracies and omissions" in its FISA Court applications to monitor the Trump campaign's former foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
"They fabricated evidence and they lied to the courts and they did all sorts of things to have it go their way," Trump told reporters Monday. "This was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it, and they got caught."
"It is an embarrassment to our country, it is dishonest, it is everything that a lot of people thought it would be except far worse," he said at the White House. "It is a disgrace what has happened with respect to the things that were done to our country. It should never again happen."
I.G. report out tomorrow. That will be the big story!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2019
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