Russian interference in US presidential election: Trump not opposed to arrest of former CIA and FBI directors
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US President Donald Trump said he would not oppose taking former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan into custody. They are suspected of spreading false information about Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to an interview with The Daily Caller.
The White House chief called Comey and Brennan "bad" and "very, very sick people," describing the falsification of the 2016 presidential election results as the "crime of the century."
"They are bad people, and they are very, very sick people, even worse than just bad. They’re sick," Trump said.
The president noted that he could not say for certain whether arrests would take place.
He emphasized instead that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also guilty.
"We had indisputable evidence on Hillary. I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t want, you know, the wife of a president to go to jail, but she was absolutely guilty. At the big rallies, people were shouting: ‘Lock her up!’ But after we won the election, I was very generous," Trump said.
Case of interference in US presidential election
In July, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a report stating that after the 2016 election, the Barack Obama administration altered data on Russia’s interference to try to remove Donald Trump from power.
The CIA, in its own report, confirmed this information and pointed to numerous procedural violations in compiling the assessment of Russian interference in the presidential election.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the Department of Justice to begin a grand jury investigation into possible violations of federal law by the Obama administration in this case.
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said that the investigation into Trump’s alleged ties with Russia was an attempt at collusion between the intelligence services and the Democratic Party.
He called for Hillary Clinton and former Obama administration officials to be held criminally responsible.
