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Trump Escalates His Attacks Against FBI Officials

The president singled out FBI attorney James Baker and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe in a series of tweets.
Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

President Trump singled out two FBI officials by name Saturday afternoon, as Republicans have intensified their efforts to discredit the special counsel investigation into links between the Trump campaign and what intelligence agencies have said was a Russian effort to sway the 2016 election to Trump.

“Wow, ‘FBI lawyer James Baker reassigned,’ according to @FoxNews.”

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