President Trump reiterated his complaints about fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and the FBI more generally in a pair of posts on Twitter Saturday:
The president's vendetta against McCabe is, at this point, well-established, so his tweets mostly garnered attention for an unfortunate typo in their initial incarnation. In his first post, Trump accidentally wrote of the FBI giving "text massages":
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The tweet was eventually deleted and replaced.
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