Pro-Trump FBI agents were 'elated' when he won the presidential elections in 2016, claims Justice Department report
A much-awaited report by Department of Justice's Inspector-General Michael Horowitz that came out on Monday, December 9, revealed that pro-Donald Trump officials in the FBI were elated after he won the election.
On November 9, 2016 — the day Trump was announced the winner of the presidential election — an unidentified supervisor in the FBI contacted a colleague to say he "was elated with the election" and even compared it to "watching a Super Bowl comeback".
They had a delightful exchange of texts celebrating the occasion, the report said. The maverick Republican candidate went on to win one of the most talked-about elections in modern American history even though he bagged lesser popular votes than his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Trump claimed the FBI is biased against him
Trump's supporters were in for a pleasant surprise. The supervisor said he "fully expected Clinton to walk away with the election. But as the returns [came] in... it was just energizing to me to see ... [because] I didn't want a criminal to be in the White House."
The news would undoubtedly boost Trump and his supporters as the president had pointed to text messages from FBI romantic partners Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in the past as evidence that the investigative agency is essentially anti to the president.
During the conversation on November 9 three years ago, the supervisor was talking about some reporting by a secret source on the Clinton Foundation and offered to his FBI mate "if you hear talk of a special prosecutor ... [I] will volunteer to work [on] the Clinton Foundation."
The report also captured a conversation between the two agents working in tandem with the same source. The handling agent was heard saying: "Trump!", to which the co-case handling agent replies: "Hahaha. S*** just got real."
"Yes it did," the handling agent says. The co-case handling agent then says: "I saw a lot of scared MFers on... [my way to work] this morning. Start looking for new jobs fellas. Haha." The handling agent replies, "LOL".
These messages featured in the section of the report that dealt with the FBI's work with confidential human sources — many of which had some links with the Trump camp.
The report also added that the officials banked heavily on the Christopher Steele dossier on the Trump campaign's alleged connections with Russia in 2016 but added that people like Strzok and Page were not key to the decision-making process in launching the probe.