Former President Donald Trump didn’t mince words Tuesday, tearing into a retired FBI counterintelligence official who spearheaded the Trump-Russia probe and was arrested this week on charges of conspiring with a Russian oligarch.
“The FBI guy after me for the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX long before my election as president was just arrested for taking money from Russia, Russia, Russia. May he rot in hell!” Mr. Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
Charles McGonigal, who had been the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, is accused of taking secret payments from Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in exchange for investigating a rival oligarch, according to court documents.