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Trump: I hope Barr will 'do what's fair' with regards to investigating Hillary Clinton

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Friday he hopes Attorney General William Barr will “do what’s fair” with regards to opening investigations to perceived crimes by his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, former intelligence chief James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan.

Trump, who offered Clinton something of an olive branch after his election victory and pledged to move forward instead of demanding another investigation into her use of a personal email server as secretary of State, asserted in an interview on Fox Business Network's “Mornings with Maria” he’d been treated “very unfairly” by investigators probing his ties to Russia.

“So when I won, I made my opening speech, everyone's shouting, ‘Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!’ I said, ‘No, no, no, let's forget her. Let's get on to the future,’” the president recalled Friday. “But they have treated me so viciously, and they have treated me so badly and we did nothing wrong — you look at the others — and all of these people you hear about, that had nothing to do with Russia, Russia collusion, nothing.”

While Trump maintained that no one on his presidential campaign conspired with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election, one subject of special counsel Robert Muller’s probe, he complained that “nobody does anything” in the face of alleged evidence of “stone cold crimes” by former Obama officials.

He accused Comey, Clapper and Brennan of telling “absolute lies” to Congress, declining to provide proof of his claim or elaborating further on their alleged lies.

Trump also revived the false claim that his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, was never actually accused of lying by the FBI itself.

Trashing his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal from the investigation, Trump bemoaned that the Russia investigation “destroy[ed] a man who is a general and a respected man for many years. ... All because Jeff Sessions didn't have a clue.”

Trump called it an “interesting question” whether he thought Barr should look into Trump’s accusations against Clinton and the other Obama officials, despite two Trump-appointed attorney generals so far declining to do so.

“I think — look, I have a lot of respect for him,” Trump said of Barr. “I've never known him. He's a very, very smart, respected man. Hopefully he'll do what's fair. ... All I can ask is what's fair.”