Article snippet: MORE spent a large part of a campaign rally Tuesday evening hailing a new Justice Department Inspector General report and blasting House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. Trump claimed the newly released report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz showed that the FBI “spied” on his presidential campaign during the 2016 election. He suggested the bureau launched an investigation into associates of his campaign to “hurt us politically,” despite Horowitz’s inquiry finding agents were not motivated by political bias in the decisions they made investigating links between the campaign and Moscow. “The FBI failed to disclose the nature of the political hit job to the FISA court, they hid it … and they lied,” Trump said, referring to an application the FBI filed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser. “Folks, they spied on our campaign,” Trump said. “Never happened before in the history of our country and we’re really wise to it.” Trump also mocked ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, claiming text messages exchanged between the two showed that agents who worked on the Russia probe were motivated by bias — directly refuting Horowitz’s findings. “They write that there was no bias, and yet he’s saying, ‘no, no, darling, we’ll stop it,’ ” Trump said, paraphrasing a text message Strzok sent to Page. The inspector general sharply criticized the FBI for inaccuracies and omiss... Link to the full article to read more