IG报告没有发现任何证据表明，在怀疑俄罗斯干涉2016年选举的情况下，调查的重点是与特朗普竞选有关的个人，带有政治偏见监督或指挥它的人。
然而，IG的报告确实批评了联邦调查局对4起案件的处理FISA申请安置卡特·佩吉特朗普竞选团队的外交政策顾问，与俄罗斯情报官员有联系。
IG报告称，这四份申请包含17项“重大不准确和遗漏”，如果适当地传达给法院，会削弱佩奇的监管地位。佩奇最终被清除了与俄罗斯干涉选举有关的任何不当行为。
“他们伪造证据，向法庭撒谎，他们做了各种事情让证据顺其自然。特朗普在白宫表示:“这是我们绝不能允许的事情。”此前，他刚刚听取了IG报告的“简报”。
“实际上，这份报告，尤其是当你仔细研究它和报告的细节时，比我想象的还要糟糕得多...这是一次推翻政府的行动，这是一次企图推翻政府的行动，很多人都参与其中，他们被抓住了。他们被当场抓获。”
弗兰克·费柳齐是联邦调查局前反情报助理局长，曾在罗伯特·穆勒手下工作，他不同意特朗普对IG报告及其结论的评论。
“我们正式生活在另一个现实中，与总统刚才描述的IG报告的特征不同。我手里拿着IG报告。我们正在读。“我可以向你保证，总统没有读过它，而且在撒谎，”费柳齐在谈到MSNBC时说。
菲戈里尤兹举了特朗普针对的联邦调查局律师丽莎·佩奇的无罪辩护为例。佩奇和彼得·斯特罗克之间的文本他是联邦调查局的一名副助理局长，后来参与了穆勒的调查，其中含有对特朗普的轻蔑言论。
联邦调查局向正在审查穆勒调查的众议院司法委员会发布了这对有婚外情的夫妇之间的信息。由于这些消息，Strzok被从穆勒调查中删除后来被联邦调查局解雇了。
特朗普一再指控佩奇参与联邦调查局出于政治动机的阴谋，开启对俄罗斯的调查。调查报告不仅没有发现调查中有政治偏见的证据，还说佩奇几乎与此无关。
“虽然丽莎·佩奇参加了一些关于展开调查的讨论，但她并没有参与决定展开交叉火力飓风或四个个案，”报告说。
“我们进一步发现，虽然斯特罗克直接参与了开启交叉火力飓风和四个个案的决策，但他并不是所有这些问题的唯一、甚至最高级别的决策者。”
“多年来，我们一直听说丽莎·佩奇有多糟糕，她是联邦调查局的律师，曾给皮特·斯洛克发短信，表示她不喜欢特朗普和其他许多人，”费柳齐告诉MSNBC。
“猜猜怎么着？IG的报告称丽莎·佩奇与任何调查的开始都毫无关系，包括交叉火力飓风。这是一个无关紧要的话题。然而，我们永远也不会从白宫听到这个消息。”
白宫没有立即做出回应新闻周刊的评论请求。
TRUMP IS 'LYING' ABOUT THE IG REPORT, FORMER FBI ASSISTANT DIRECTOR CLAIMS: 'THE PRESIDENT HASN'T READ IT'
A former assistant director of the FBI accused President Donald Trump of mischaracterizing Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report into the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and "lying about it."
The IG report found no evidence that the investigation, which focused on individuals connected to the Trump campaign amid suspicions of Russian interference in the 2016 election, was tainted with political bias by those overseeing or conducting it.
However, the IG report did criticize the FBI for its handling of four FISA applications to place Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign with links to Russian intelligence officers, under surveillance.
Those four applications contained 17 "significant inaccuracies and omissions," the IG report said, that if properly conveyed to the court weakened the case to place Page under surveillance. Page was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing relating to Russia's election meddling.
"They fabricated evidence and they lied to the courts and they did all sorts of things to have it go their way. This was something that we can never allow to happen again," Trump said in the White House after he was "just briefed" on the IG report.
"The report actually, and especially when you look into it and the details of the report, are far worse than anything I would have even imagined...This was an overthrow of government, this was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it and they got caught. They got caught red-handed."
Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, who worked under Robert Mueller at the bureau, took issue with Trump's comments about the IG report and its conclusions.
"We are officially living in an alternate reality with what the president has just said characterizing the IG report. I've got the IG report in my hand. We're reading it. I can assure you the president hasn't read it and is lying about it," Figliuzzi said on MSNBC.
Figliuzzi highlighted as an example the exculpation of Lisa Page, a lawyer for the FBI that Trump has targeted. Texts between Page and Peter Strzok, a deputy assistant director at the FBI who later worked on the Mueller investigation, contained disparaging remarks about Trump.
The FBI released the messages between the pair—who were having an affair—to the House Judiciary Committee, which was scrutinizing the Mueller probe. Strzok was removed from the Mueller investigation as a consequence of the messages and later fired from the FBI.
Trump has repeatedly accused Page of involvement in a politically-motivated conspiracy at the FBI to open the Russia investigation. Not only did the IG report find no evidence of political bias in the investigation, it also said Page had almost nothing to do with it.
"While Lisa Page attended some of the discussions regarding the opening of the investigations, she did not play a role in the decision to open Crossfire Hurricane or the four individual cases," the report said.
"We further found that while Strzok was directly involved in the decisions to open Crossfire Hurricane and the four individual cases, he was not the sole, or even the highest-level, decision-maker as to any of those matters."
"We've heard now for years how awful Lisa Page is, the FBI attorney who texted with Pete Stzrok her dislike of Trump and many other people," Figliuzzi told MSNBC.
"Guess what? The IG report says Lisa Page had absolutely zero to do with any of the openings of any of the investigations including Crossfire Hurricane. It's an irrelevant topic. Yet we'll never hear that coming from the White House."
The White House did not respond immediately to Newsweek's request for comment.
US President Donald Trump at the White House on December 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump sharply criticized the FBI after the IG report on the Russia investigation.
