Article snippet: MORE tweeted on Friday that “Fox & Friends” was broadcasting from the front lawn of the White House, teasing a possible visit. Minutes later, Trump was standing side-by-side with Fox host Steve Doocy unloading on former FBI Director MORE, Democrats and the Russia probe in an unusual setting: the North Lawn of the White House. In the course of the two interviews, Trump offered a series of claims, several of them misleading and designed to undermine special counsel MORE’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He said the Justice Department’s inspector general (IG) report had cleared his name, even though that was not one of its conclusions or purposes. “I think that the report yesterday, maybe more importantly than anything, it totally exonerates me,” Trump told the group of reporters in the second interview. The IG report focused on the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State MORE and did not touch upon the origins of Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s election interference. Trump offered a a selective reading of the IG report, which criticized the FBI and Comey’s conduct during the Clinton probe but found no evidence their decisions were tainted by political bias in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential race. Trump accused the FBI of having “total bias” toward him and “plotting against my election,” statements that continued the White House’s efforts to politically tar the underpinnings of Mueller’s probe... Link to the full article to read more