Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz has uncovered even more subversive rhetoric within the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after his completion of the report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. An unidentified FBI employee described Trump voters as “uneducated” and “lazy POS” the day after the 2016 presidential election.
According to a report from Fox News, the employee in question was responding to instant messages from “FBI Attorney 2,” whom Horowitz indicated was one of five FBI employees who had been referred for investigation and possible disciplinary action over politically-charged messages.
Horowitz said Attorney 2 had been assigned to the Clinton investigation in “early in 2016.” About one year later, the report said Attorney 2 was made the “primary FBI attorney” assigned to the Russia investigation over possible collusion in the presidential election.
The IG report shows that on the morning of November 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump won the presidency, Attorney 2 messaged the employee: “I am so stressed about what I could have done differently.”
The employee answered: “Don’t stress. None of that mattered,” which was apparently a subtle reference to the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton. When the attorney said: “I don’t know. We broke the momentum,” the employee answered: “That is not so.”
“All the people who were initially voting for her would not, and were not, swayed by any decision the FBI put out,” the employee wrote. “Trump’s supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS that think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. They probably didn’t watch the debates, aren’t fully educated on his policies, and are stupidly wrapped up in his unmerited enthusiasm.”
The findings add just another blow to the embattled FBI, which is now losing public favor.
Attorney 2 later added: “I just can’t imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress we made over the last 8 years. [The Affordable Care Act] is gone. Who knows if the rhetoric about deporting people, walls, and crap is true. I honestly feel like there is going to be a lot more gun issues, too, the crazies won finally. This is the tea party on steroids. And the GOP is going to be lost, they have to deal with an incumbent in 4 years. We have to fight this again. Also [Vice President Mike] Pence is stupid.”
When asked about the messages by Horowitz, “Attorney 2” said the two were “just discussing our personal feelings…between friends.” He also told the IG that the “so stressed about what I could have done differently” message referred to the length of time investigators took to examine Clinton emails found on former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
“[I]f we would have opened a few weeks earlier, as opposed to at that time, two weeks before the election, I think it, you know, it would have given more time for the FBI’s actions and, and required and, and necessary investigation to, to occur to allow the, the public a chance to make their own [decisions].”
The messaging exchange from November 9 was just one of three separate instances that Horowitz flagged as having “concerns of potential bias.”
On October 28, 2016, they day then-FBI Director James Comey notified Congress that he was reopening the Clinton email investigation after emails were found on Weiner’s laptop, the attorney corresponded with four separate FBI employees that referred to Comey’s letter as “the destruction of the Republic.”
“I mean, I never really liked the Republic anyway,” the attorney messaged two different FBI employees. A third message read: “As I have initiated the destruction of the republic…Would you be so kind as to have a coffee with me this afternoon?” A fourth message stated: “I’m clinging to small pockets of happiness in the dark time of the Republic’s destruction.”
When questioned by Horowitz, Attorney 2 described the language in the October 28 messages as “hyperbolic” and “off-the cuff commentary to friends.” Furthermore, he denied that his “personal political feelings or beliefs” played any role in his work on the Clinton or Russia investigation.
