"We have great people in the Department of Justice…. But you've got some real bad ones. You've seen what's happened at the FBI. They're all gone," Trump told his supporters while campaigning for Republican Senate Candidate Josh Hawley. "But there's a lingering stench and we're going to get rid of that, too."
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
On Monday, the president ordered the release of unredacted text messages from a number of current and former US officials focusing on the Russia investigation including: fired FBI Director James Comey, fired Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, fired FBI agent Peter Strzok, resigned FBI lawyer Lisa Page and former associate deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice Bruce Ohr, who remains in the department. The release of those materials was delayed on Friday but they are still expected to come out soon.