President Trump tweeted Friday that he believes the FBI is biased against him in favor of Democrats.
This allegation comes at the same time Trump has decided to declassify the Nunes memo.
CNN:
"The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago," Trump wrote. "Rank & File are great people!"
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The fight over the memo has put the President at odds with his top law enforcement officials, who have urged the White House to reconsider releasing the document.
Top White House aides are worried [FBI Director] Christopher Wray could quit if the highly controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools is released, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
Trump reviewed the memo on Wednesday, White House officials told CNN, and discussed it with his chief of staff, John Kelly, and the White House counsel's office.
In recent phone calls, Trump has told friends he believes the memo would expose bias within the FBI's top ranks and make it easier for him to argue the Russia investigations -- primarily the inquiry led by special counsel Robert Mueller -- are prejudiced against him, according to two sources.
While the President is not listening to his FBI Director or Department of Justice officials, he does appear to be listening to Fox News host Sean Hannity and other pro-Trump surrogates appearing on cable news shows.
According to three sources with knowledge of their conversations, Trump has been in regular contact with Hannity over the phone in recent weeks, as the Fox News prime-time star and Trump ally has encouraged the prompt release of a controversial four-page memo crafted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. Hannity has gone to the wall to push for the public release of the memo ...
Sources say Hannity’s persistent advocacy reinforced Trump’s already growing determination to get that memo into the public realm—despite huge potential fallout within the law enforcement and intelligence arms of his own administration ...
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Trump not only deeply values the private, after-hours political and policy advice and gossip from his favorite cable-news hosts, but is a notoriously avid consumer of their broadcasts, particularly highly sympathetic shows like Hannity and Fox & Friends. As he has inched closer to publicly releasing the Nunes memo—he has privately said it’s all but a foregone conclusion—cable news and right-wing media have shaped his views on the issue, as they have on many other topics, far more so than the briefings or private intelligence provided by those within his administration, White House officials say.
Sean Hannity Has Been Advising Donald Trump on the Nunes Memo, Because of Course He Has (Daily Beast)
Trump accuses FBI, DOJ leadership of favoring Democrats ahead of memo release (CNN)