Trump is getting negative marks from the public for his coronavirus response, and Senate Republicans are worried about hanging on to their six-seat majority. The Trump campaign has started its own campaign to try to discredit Democrats’ presumptive nominee, former vice president Joe Biden. Trump is trying to loop Biden into his long-standing grievances against the intelligence community for investigating him in the first place. Trump allies have alleged that Comey’s controversial leadership of the FBI underscores how agents may have politicized their investigations against Trump. Rice says Obama urged Comey and the FBI to do all investigations of Trump officials “by the book,” and Comey emphasized that he was.

Source: Washington Post May 21, 2020 09:56 UTC