Trump Calls FBI ‘Cancer in Our Country,’ Says Exposing it Will Be ‘Crowning Achievement’

President Donald Trump went off on the FBI in a wild interview on Wednesday, calling the U.S. law enforcement agency  “a cancer in our country.”

Trump was interviewed in the Oval Office by HillTV’s John Solomon and Buck Sexton, and after brutally degrading his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, he turned to the FBI’s investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia.

On Monday, Trump ordered the declassification of documents related to surveillance of his former campaign staffer Carter Page, along with, according to the White House: “all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.”

The effort to expose the Russia investigation as illegitimate by releasing these documents has been an obsession of the pro-Trump media — from Sean Hannity to Lou Dobbs — for months, though Trump admitted to HillTV that he was not sure what’s actually in the documents.

“Trump said he had not read the documents he ordered declassified but said he expected to show they would prove the FBI case started as a political ‘hoax,'” HillTV reported.

“I have had many people ask me to release them,” he said. “Not that I didn’t like the idea but I wanted to wait, I wanted to see where it was all going.”

And then, Trump was asked, “what he thought the outcome of his long-running fight with the FBI.”

He replied: “I hope to be able to put this up as one of my crowning achievements that I was able to … expose something that is truly a cancer in our country.”

Read the interview here.

Correction: A previous version of this post referred to Hill writer John Solomon as Josh Solomon. The post has been updated.

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