People who sat in this seat before me and people who were the deputies in the very senior portions of the Bureau who manipulated and weaponized the Bureau. I was a fierce critic of it because I led the Russiagate investigation and I proved that my predecessors went to a federal court and lied to them just to weaponize the FBI and the DOJ. That is 100% true. I think one of the things that surprised me the most, and pleasantly so, was that the amount of men and women at the FBI that hated that they did that to the Bureau. (03:15–03:25)
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Asserts that he proved previous FBI leaders lied to a federal court to weaponize the FBI and DOJ.
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