The left / deep state is full-blown damage control.
They're now claiming that President Trump has "interfered" with the investigation.
>Matthew Miller (MSNBC Justice & Security Analyst:
>There it is. He has finally crossed the red line and ordered up a DOJ investigation of his political opponents, as well as career law enforcement agents. Moment of truth for Rosenstein and Sessions and moment of danger for the country.
>John Harwood (CNBC):
>Trump’s most consequential interference in our system of justice since he fired the FBI director who was investigating him.
>John Brennan (Former CIA Director)
>Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions.
President Trump is officially requesting that the Department of Justice investigate whether or not the "FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump campaign for Political Purposes," as well as whether "any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama administration."
73-year-old University of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper approached four campaign aides during the 2016 US election for purposes of espionage on behalf of the FBI, according to reports last week in the New York Times and Washington Post. Halper, a longtime FBI and CIA asset whose former father-in-law was former Deputy CIA Director Ray Cline, notably got caught spying on the Carter administration during the 1980 election, "reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush," according to The Intercept.
>Queue the insane, liberal shills trying to justify this.
