The tweet puts Trump squarely on the side of Republican lawmakers who view the memo, which was penned by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and approved for release by the House committee earlier this week, as a document that shows evidence of nefarious motives atop the FBI. FBI director Christopher Wray advised employees at the bureau to "keep calm" and continue working following the release Friday of a highly controversial memo claiming that the FBI and the Department of Justice abused their surveillance authority to monitor a former adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign. Republicans on the committee have said they believe they've uncovered serious misconduct that needs to be made public. Asked by reporters on Friday if he had confidence in Rosenstein, Trump replied, “You figure that one out.”

“A lot of people should be ashamed,” Trump said of the findings in the document. It claims that Mr Steele, who was also an FBI source, told then deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr that he was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not becoming president”. CBS News also reported on Thursday that Wray was prepared to issue a public rebuttal of the Nunes memo if Trump did choose to declassify it. The release of the memo intensified the battle between Trump and his Republican allies in Congress on one side and Democrats and top FBI officials on the other about whether the probe into Russian interference in the presidential election was affected by political bias on the part of investigators. Two days ago, in a rare public rebuke of the president and Republicans in Congress who were pushing to release the memo, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had “grave concerns about material omissions of fact” in the document and it should not be made public. In his swipe at U.S. law enforcement leadership on Twitter on Friday, Trump said, “The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago.”

His latest salvo was sure to worsen the president’s frayed relations with agencies that are supposed to be politically independent. The FBI director has not yet indicated that he will do so, but urged employees on Friday to "keep doing your great work and keep being the great people you are."
U.S. President Donald Trump authorizes Congress to release the Nunes memo, against the wishes of the FBI, Department of Justice, and lawmakers from both sides, all of whom say that the document's release poses a risk to national security.