President Trump met today with both Deputy AG Rosenstein and FBI Director Wray in a meeting that was scheduled before he yesterday called on the DOJ to investigate any 2016 spying of his campaign.
However, the White House is reporting that the DOJ is asking the IG to expand their probe as a result of the meeting with Trump:
From @PressSec: IG has been asked to expand its probe to include “any irregularities” with FBI/DOJ’s tactics re Trump campaign pic.twitter.com/g6PWSyPv17
— Emily Ngo (@epngo) May 21, 2018
According to John Roberts, this is a big deal.
Whoa. This is big pic.twitter.com/vrw2lhKkGF
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) May 21, 2018
As a result of Rosenstein’s request yesterday, the IG is already investigating any spying that was done on the 2016 Trump campaign. Expanding it to ‘any irregularities’ really doesn’t mean that much to me, but perhaps it is significant.