“Trump-Russia collusion — we now find out that for the first nine months, the investigation was headed by the guy who hated Donald Trump, said he would stop him from becoming president.”

The House Oversight Committee chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who has long defended the FBI and Mueller, said Strzok’s bias “was so pervasive and toxic as to call into question any other investigations he was part of, including his role in the investigation of what Russia did in 2016.”

The primary conclusion of Horowitz’s report was that despite a series of missteps by senior FBI officials — including the bureau’s director at the time, James Comey, as well as Strzok and others — there’s no evidence that the decision against prosecuting Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server was infected by bias. In a flurry of tweets on Friday morning, Trump said that the report, conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general, is a “total disaster” for Comey and the FBI, claiming that he “did a great service to the people” in firing the agency’s former chief, Xinhua reported. There was total bias.”

Echoing his tweets from earlier Friday morning, the president again singled out FBI agent Peter Strzok for special criticism, claiming that the politically charged text messages Strzok sent to FBI attorney Lisa Page during the Clinton email probe exposed an attempt to undermine Trump’s candidacy in 2016. During an interview with Fox News Channel at the White House on Friday morning, Trump said “the end result was wrong” and there was “total bias.”

Later, he told other reporters that “Comey was the ring leader of this whole, you know, den of thieves.
The U.S. Department of Justice publishes a 568-page report by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz on the FBI's handling of its investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices. The report is critical of former FBI Director James Comey, accusing him of being "insubordinate", but finding that his actions were not politically biased.