President Donald Trump teased possible declassification of FISA documents related to the 2016 investigation of his campaign in a Thursday tweet.
The Deep State and the Left, and their vehicle, the Fake News Media, are going Crazy – & they don’t know what to do. The Economy is booming like never before, Jobs are at Historic Highs, soon TWO Supreme Court Justices & maybe Declassification to find Additional Corruption. Wow!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 6, 2018
Trump has faced growing calls from conservative lawmakers to declassify FISA and other DOJ related documents from the 2016 investigation into his campaign. Trump and these lawmakers allege that the investigations were improperly pursued by senior FBI leaders such as Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe and James Comey.
“We’re looking at it very seriously right now because the things that have gone on are so bad. So bad. I mean, they were surveilling my campaign,” Trump said in a Tuesday Oval Office interview with The Daily Caller, adding, “Can you imagine if we were doing that to Obama instead of Obama and his people doing that to us? Everybody would’ve been in jail for the next 500 years.”
Lawmakers and the president have also expressed concern over the role the salacious Steele dossier played in the Trump investigation. The dossier was later revealed to have been paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.