Trump, Riding a North Korea High, Unloads on the F.B.I., Comey and Obama: WASHINGTON — He assailed the “scum on top” of the F.B.I. who were out to get him. He suggested that a former a...Trump, Riding a North Korea High, Unloads on the F.B.I., Comey and Obama: WASHINGTON — He assailed the “scum on top” of the F.B.I. who were out to get him. He suggested that a former aide did not lie even though he pleaded guilty to lying to investigators. And he distanced himself from his onetime campaign chairman hours before the aide was sent to jail. Reasserting himself on the Washington stage after a week spent overseas or out of sight, President Trump went on offense on Friday in his multifront war with investigators, eagerly framing a new Justice Department report as validation of his claim of a “deep state” conspiracy against him. “They were plotting against my election,” Mr. Trump said, pointing to partisan texts sent by several F.B.I. agents during the 2016 presidential campaign and cited in the report. The F.B.I. director at the time, James B. Comey, ran a corrupt operation and should be prosecuted, he added. “Comey was the ringleader of this whole, you know, den of thieves.”
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