FBI failed to act on a warning because it focused on the Russian probe: Trump on Florida shooting
The US president claimed he never said Moscow did not interfere in the 2016 elections.
United States President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had failed to act on a warning about Nikolas Cruz, the teenager accused of killing 17 people at a school in Florida, because the agency spent time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign during the 2016 elections.
Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2018
Trump also claimed that he never said that Moscow had not interfered in the US elections. “I said ‘it may be Russia, or China or another country or group, or it may be a 400 pound genius sitting in bed and playing with his computer,’” the president said. “The Russian ‘hoax’ was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia – it never did!”
Instead, Trump claimed that former US President Barack Obama knew about the Russian threat to the polls and “did nothing” about it.
The US president also alleged that it was Russia’s goal to “create discord, disruption and chaos within the US”. He claimed that the investigation into alleged meddling by Moscow meant that the Russians had “succeeded beyond their wildest dreams”.
If it was the GOAL of Russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the U.S. then, with all of the Committee Hearings, Investigations and Party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They are laughing their asses off in Moscow. Get smart America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2018
