FBI Memos Reveal Secret Trump-Russia Probe After Comey Firing
The Spin
Republican narrative
The FBI opened a secret criminal probe on a sitting president, knowing full well the collusion case was already dead — agents had debunked the Steele dossier and Strzok himself admitted there was "no big there there." Comey's firing was just a pretext to keep the investigation alive and get Mueller appointed. This was a deliberate abuse of law enforcement power to take down a duly elected president.
Democratic narrative
The Russia investigation was opened for legitimate reasons and conducted appropriately, as the Justice Department's own inspector general confirmed — no partisan bias, a valid predicate and essential national security work. Comey acknowledged problems with the Carter Page surveillance but stood firmly behind the overall probe. Treating procedural errors as proof of a grand conspiracy ignores the documented evidence of Russian election interference.
