Trump Jr. on memo: ‘A little bit of sweet revenge’ for Trump family

Echoing President Trump’s thoughts, Donald Trump Jr. on Saturday slammed the FBI officials in the wake of the public release of the GOP memo that alleges surveillance abuses by the bureau.

“There is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and certainly probably the family in a sense that if they wouldn’t have done this, this stuff would be going on. This would be going on at the highest levels of government,” Trump Jr. said on Fox News. “They’d be continuing to do it to my father, trying to undermine his actions.”

Hours after the memo was released, the president commented via a tweet.

“This memo totally vindicates ‘Trump’ in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. [There] was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!” President Trump wrote on Twitter.

According to the Washington Post, the memo “argues in part that the [Carter] Page warrant, issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), stemmed directly from information conveyed to the FBI by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele. Steele was the author of the reports included in the infamous ‘dossier,’ which included multiple reports involving Page.”

Critics are calling the memo nothing more than an effort to discredit both the Russia investigation and the FBI by asserting the bureau holds a bias against President Trump.

A day after the president’s tweet, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said on CNN, “of course” the memo does not vindicate Trump in the Russia probe.

“And the fact that the Republicans in the House refuse to allow a minority report, the Democratic response to the memo, is an indication they are just bound to continue to find ways to absolve this president from any responsibility,” Durbin added.