The president has previously pointed to text message exchanges between FBI lawyer Lisa Page and FBI agent Peter Strzok that included insults directed at Trump as evidence that both the investigation into his campaign's potential ties to Russia and the outcome of the Hillary Clinton email investigation were tainted.
A new exchange released in Thursday's IG report showed Strzok in an August 2016 text to Page said \"We'll stop it\" regarding a question on whether Trump could be elected president. The IG said text implied \"a willingness [by Strzok] to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects,\" even if there was no evidence found that any such action was taken by either Strzok or Page.
In a January interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump went as far to accuse Strzok of \"treason\" regarding his political texts.
Sanders on Thursday was asked whether the president believes Strzok should still be employed at the FBI.
\"I haven't asked him but my guess would be no,\" Sanders said.
On Capitol Hill, members of Congress also reacted to the investigation. Deomcratic Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Intelligence committee, said the report is an example where the system worked.
\"There were concerns raised, the inspector general did a thorough and respectful review, pointed out mistakes that were made, so that the White House and its allies that continue to make ad hominem attacks on the integrity of virtually everybody who works at the Department of Justice and the FBI I hope would go on to a bit of a pause,\" Warner said.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, also said that even though some political bias may have been shown in the text messages it did not impact the results of the investigation into Clinton's emails.
\"Director Comey and others made serious errors of judgment and while these errors in judgment were not driven by political considerations they were nevertheless serious mistakes. Those mistakes unquestionably have the effect of helping the Trump campaign, that was not by design but that was the effect,\" Schiff said.
Democratic Reps. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Jerrold Nadler of New York said the report shows the FBI helped Trump get elected and that the agency should not have spoken publicly about the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email.
Cummings and Nadler said in a statement that the report is also ironic because Republicans in Congress are using the same kind of attacks to target special counsel Robert Mueller. Another Democrat, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, tweeted that the report is not proof of a conspiracy and that Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the election should be allowed to proceed without interference.
Cummings and Nadler are the top Democrats on the House Oversight and House Judiciary committees, respectively.
Some Republicans said the report emphasized that the FBI was biased or spent too much energy talking to reporters.
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