Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation must be ended now because it has been thoroughly discredited by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Friday.
"If this was in a court of law they would throw this case out. I think the Mueller investigation has got to stop," McCarthy, a California Republican, told Fox News’s "Fox & Friends."
Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that five FBI employees assigned to the Clinton email case exchanged texts or instant messages that were hostile to Trump or supported Clinton.
He zeroed in on text messages FBI agent Peter Strzok sent during the separate bureau probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails – in which he said Trump’s run for president would be stopped -- as proof that Mueller’s probe is tainted.
"The most damning of all of this is the person they had in charge, the most biased person there is — the Peter Strzok — he wanted President Trump to lose 100 million-to-one. He told his girlfriend that he was going to make sure that he could," McCarthy said.
"This is the inside of the FBI, the highest levels, and those in charge of an investigation that should end after the millions of dollars they have already spent."
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