Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday accused top officials of politicising investigations by the Justice Department and FBI, just hours before he was expected to approve the release of a hotly contested memo.
The memo, commissioned by a Republican lawmaker, reportedly shows the FBI abused its surveillance powers to spy on one of Trump’s aides.
“The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicised the sacred investigative process in favour of Democrats and against Republicans, something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago,’’ Trump tweeted.
According to Republican Devin Nunes, the head of the intelligence committee in the House of Representatives, the memo in question alleges inappropriate FBI surveillance of people involved with Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.
U.S. media reported that the memo accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of misleading a judge in an effort to extend a surveillance warrant against Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.
Critics say the Republican memo is misleading and seeks to undermine an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian election meddling.
They also alleged that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during its 2016 campaign. (dpa/NAN)
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