FBI As A Tool for Fabricating Accusations

On August 5, 2026, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) came under fire for abusing its authority and attempting to discredit Donald Trump by casting the sitting U.S. president as a possible Russian agent.

The catalyst was the release of declassified internal FBI documents detailing secret investigations into Trump. Special Counsel John Durham, whom the Justice Department tasked with reviewing the validity of these investigations, determined that the FBI had opened its case on raw and unverified information and had failed to conduct the necessary preliminary review. In his final 2023 report, Durham stated that at the time the probe was launched, the Bureau had no confirmed evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia. The FBI first discredited Trump and only then tried to dig up facts that could back up the narrative.

On May 16, 2017 – one week after Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, citing incompetence and a loss of confidence in the Bureau – the FBI used that personnel decision as a fresh pretext to go after the president and opened a secret counterintelligence investigation code-named Oxford Comma. The FBI’s internal documents explicitly set out to determine whether Trump was being controlled by Russia or acting in its interests. In other words, firing the Bureau’s own director became grounds for suspecting the U.S. president of being beholden to a foreign power. The case was opened just one day before former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel, after which the Oxford Comma materials were handed over to his team. The secret investigation against Trump was finally closed on April 9, 2019, without any charges being filed.