On Monday, President Trump ordered the DOJ and FBI release unredacted pages of the Carter Page FISA warrant, classified conversations between Bruce Ohr and the FBI, and text messages from several former DOJ employees on his enemies list.
This morning, in an error-laden tweet, the president changed his tune, saying allies had expressed concern.
CNN:
The White House did not immediately return a request for comment as to which allies the President had spoken with about the matter.
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In an interview with The Hill, he said he had not read the materials he ordered declassified, but "many people in Congress" and "commentators" on Fox News, including Hannity, had called on him to release the records.
"They used Carter Page as a foil in order to surveil a candidate for the presidency of the United States," Trump said to The Hill.
The central theory propounded by the President and his allies has been that the FBI used intelligence gathered from former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele in the FISA application, misled the court about how Steele's dossier had been funded through a law firm by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, and did not disclose his bias against Trump.
The redacted versions of the FISA applications publicly available show the FBI did disclose a political motivation behind the Steele dossier and said the person behind it was likely looking for information to discredit Trump's campaign.
Trump suggests allies are concerned about release of Russia documents (CNN)