Trump Tries to Market ‘SpyGate’ to Reporters: ‘You’re Calling it SpyGate’

President Donald Trump met briefly with reporters on the White House South Lawn, and he elaborated on his extensive tweetstorm against the FBI and the “criminal deep state” earlier today.

Trump outright condemned the FBI for embedding an informant to spy on his 2016 campaign in his morning tweetstorm, but he backtracked to a more accusatory stance this afternoon by saying “I hope it’s not true, but it looks like it is.”

POTUS also took the opportunity to tear into James Clapper and James Comey once again after the two former intelligence chiefs denounced his unproven claims over the last few days.

“If you look at what he did, if you look at all of the lies, the tremendous lies…I think James Comey has got a lot of problems,” Trump said. “I did a great service to this country by firing James Comey.”

Trump also made a big deal of showing off his fancy, new, totally uninspired name for the alleged scandal against him.

‘We now call it Spygate. You are calling it Spygate. A lot of bad things have happened. I want them all to get together. They will sit in a room. Hopefully they will be able to work it out among themselves.”

Trump was repeatedly asked whether he has confidence in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, but he refused to say one way or the other as he demanded “total transparency.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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