Trump accuses the FBI and DOJ of 'stalling,' labels The Washington Post 'made up garbage'

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published 8 April 2018

President Trump again expressed his displeasure with the FBI, the Department of Justice, and The Washington Post on Twitter Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The president accused the FBI and DOJ, both agencies in his own branch of government, of attempting to conceal a corrupt probe of Hillary Clinton's private email server from the House Judiciary Committee:

Turning his attention to The Washington Post, Trump specifically slammed a Saturday evening Post report that Chief of Staff John Kelly has "faded as White House disciplinarian":

Trump is reportedly obsessed with making life miserable for Post and Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, as he does not like the paper's coverage of his administration.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.