In a Saturday morning tirade against the FBI, Trump mistakenly tweeted "text massages" instead of "text messages." And Twitter had a ball.
The tweet was deleted some 30 minutes after it was posted and quickly replaced, although Trump incorrectly used "it's" instead of "its" in the updated post. Strike number two.
In his Twitter rant, the 45th US president demanded that the FBI turn over any and all files pertaining to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to Judicial Watch, a notably conservative US activist and watchdog group that primarily bombards Democratic lawmakers with Freedom of Information requests and frivolous lawsuits.
In April, US Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a criminal referral regarding McCabe to the US Attorney's Office in Washington DC.
The criminal referral suggests that the US Attorney's Office should charge McCabe with lying to federal investigators.
News of the referral, reportedly filed some time ago, comes after the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report in April noting that McCabe "lacked candor" when discussing his decision to authorize disclosures to the media regarding the FBI's investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
The OIG report stated: "We therefore concluded that McCabe's disclosure of the existence of an ongoing investigation in this manner violated the FBI's and the department's media policy and constituted misconduct."