Donald John Trump

“ The Director of the FBI must be someone who follows faithfully the rule and principles of the Department of Justice and who sets the right example of our law enforcement officials and others in the Department. ”

“ Almost everyone agrees that the Director made serious mistakes it is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives.
The director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors. ”

“ Former Deputy Attorneys General Gorelick and Thompson described the unusual events as “real-time, raw-take transparency taken to its illogical limit, a kind of reality TV of federal criminal investigation,” that is “antithetical to the interests of justice.”
Donald Ayer, who served as Deputy Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush, along with other former Justice Department officials, was “astonished and perplexed” by the decision to “break [] with longstanding practices followed by officials of both parties during past elections.” Ayer's letter noted, “Perhaps most troubling . . . ”