Attacks FBI Director Wray and calls IG findings an "attempted overthrow" after report clears the Rus

After the Justice Department Inspector General's December 9 report found no political bias in the opening of the FBI's 2016 Russia investigation, Trump characterized the findings to reporters as showing an "attempted overthrow" of the government. The following day, after FBI Director Christopher Wray defended the report's key findings, Trump attacked his own appointee on Twitter, writing that Wray must have read a different report and would "never be able to fix the FBI." Commentators noted the report contradicted rather than supported Trump's long-running claim that the probe was a politically motivated "witch hunt." The episode illustrates a documented pattern in which Trump reasserts a debunked framing and turns on institutional officials who decline to endorse it.

"I don't know what report current Director of the FBI Christopher Wray was reading, but it sure wasn't the one given to me. With that kind of attitude, he will never be able to fix the FBI, which is badly broken." Quote verified against source