![]() "As Congress has investigated, we've continued to see more and more troubling evidence suggesting multiple senior level FBI and DOJ officials acted in a deeply unethical fashion during the 2016 campaign and throughout the early stages of the Trump administration," Meadows said in a statement.īut Rep. ![]() Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican who has been a leading GOP voice in urging Trump to use his legal authority to publicly release the documents, praised the president's unusual move. ![]() In addition, Trump ordered the declassification of FBI documents detailing information provided by Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who has become a frequent target of the president's Twitter attacks, in which he calls for Ohr to be fired and brands the investigation a politically biased "witch hunt." The order followed a request from several Republican members of Congress seeking to discredit the Russia investigation. On Monday, Trump directed that more of the FBI's warrant application to secretly monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page's communications be declassified and released to the public. Trump noted that his order was based on requests from lawmakers on the House Intelligence and Oversight committees, and wouldn't answer directly if he plans to declassify even more items in the future. The Democrats know it's a witch hunt, too, but they don't want to admit it because that's not good politics for them." ![]() "What I want is I want total transparency," Trump said. In his first on-camera comments since ordering the declassification of secret documents related to the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump on Tuesday argued his move was in the interest of "total transparency" while making clear his primary target is the "terrible witch hunt." ![]()
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