The memo, portraying a series of early meetings between Trump and the FBI, may provide important clues about the nature of the relationship between the future president-elect and the country’s largest law enforcement agency. FBI agents even prepared an “undercover proposal concerning the TRUMP casino” that senior agents and Trump planned to discuss, according to the document. According to a 1981 FBI memo, Trump offered to “fully cooperate” with the bureau, proposing that FBI agents work undercover in a casino he was considering opening in Atlantic City. Then on Wednesday, McClatchy reported that the FBI and five other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies have for months been investigating whether Russia may have covertly funneled money to help Trump win the election.īut what’s not widely known is that the next president has a history with the FBI that goes back more than three decades.
Many Democrats have accused FBI Director James Comey of giving Trump a massive boost by announcing 11 days before the election that the bureau was effectively reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. The FBI’s role in the election that gave Donald Trump the presidency has been a matter of partisan contention for months.
