'The report's headline findings are that the investigation was properly initiated based on a sound factual basis,' attorney Donald Ayer said.
"Bill Barr has grossly mischaracterized and subverted the findings of the IG investigation report addressing the FBI investigation into Russian interference in our 2016 election," said Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general, former deputy solicitor general and former U.S. attorney, in his statement.
The attorney referred to Trump as Barr's"client," arguing that the president and the attorney general disregarded the independent inspector general's findings because the"outcome he reaches is not the one desired" by the president. Carrie Cordero, a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security, pointed out that the report demonstrated that there was no"evidence of political bias or systematic abuse of surveillance authorities on the part of the FBI." The president and some of his supporters have continued to push such claims, despite the inspector general's findings.
Responding to the report on Monday, Trump said:"It's a disgrace what's happened with respect to the things that were done to our country. It should never again happen to another president." On Tuesday,, whom he appointed, after the bureau head gave his assessment of the report's findings, which was at odds with that of the president and the attorney general.
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