Business Insider reports:
President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night lashed out at the FBI calling staff of the agency “scum.” He also doubled down on discredited conspiracy theories following the release of a report which undermined the president’s claims that the Russia probe was a “deep state” plot to damage his presidency.
During the rally Trump repeated claims that the FBI had “spied” on his 2016 campaign that in a report released the day before Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz had found to be groundless.
“When the FBI uncovered evidence showing that we did absolutely nothing wrong, which was right at the beginning, they hid that exonerating, you know that, they hid it,” Trump claimed.
Trump starts to tout the Space Force, but then gets distracted by trashing the media. He claims the New York Times and Washington Post will go out of business unless he’s reelected, so he says he expects the papers to endorse his reelection. pic.twitter.com/wWKQppVWPP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2019
“Law enforcement is so great. That particular guy wanted to be so politically correct. Ahhh! Ahhh! We don’t want to be political correct” — Trump laments that arena security wasn’t rougher with a female protester pic.twitter.com/GdkEbzZUHQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2019
Trump refers to FBI agents as “scum.” He then refers to John Durham as “Bull Durham.” He then refers to Obama as “Barack Hussein Obama.” pic.twitter.com/AxVjDCWk7H
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2019
Trump spreads unsourced rumors about Lisa Page taking out a restraining order on Peter Strzok: “Did I hear he needed a restraining order after this whole thing, from Lisa? That’s what I heard. I don’t know if it’s true.” #BeBest pic.twitter.com/h6W3YMrlpo
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2019
“Darling I want to watch television tonight and there’s no damn wind, what do I do?” — Trump still thinks that wind energy means people won’t be able to watch TV reliably pic.twitter.com/w6xwi9qgfL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2019
Trump refers to Adam Schiff as a “crooked bastard.” #BeBest pic.twitter.com/kA1kgHXpQQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2019
Trump claims (falsely) that Beto O’Rourke “wanted to get rid of religion — the Bible.” pic.twitter.com/kEotDXdvx5
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2019
“Should we give it a shot? Maybe we will. I’m only kidding” — Trump muses about shredding the Constitution and serving as many as 29 years in office pic.twitter.com/TeyhCCuEJn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2019