President Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow slammed former FBI Director James Comey in light of new reports that he was drafting a statement clearing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE of any wrongdoing before his agency's probe of her handling of classified information was complete.

“The whole investigation evidently was just a fraud on the American people,” Sekulow told Fox News's Kimberly Guilfoyle on Thursday.

“You’ve got James Comey now with emails going back and forth where he’s drafting three months before they interview 16 key witnesses, including the supposed target of the investigation/ exoneration,” he continued, slamming the former FBI director's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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“Evidently, he had already made up his mind three months before the investigation really got underway. So this whole thing was a fraud on the American people," he added.

Sekulow's comments come after Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley Charles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleySenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Biden says Ginsburg successor should be picked by candidate who wins on Nov. 3 MORE (Iowa) and Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamSenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg Democratic senator calls for eliminating filibuster, expanding Supreme Court if GOP fills vacancy What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies MORE (S.C.) said on Wednesday transcripts from a federal watchdog agency revealed Comey was preparing to announce Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee fo president, was free of criminal charges before the investigation was completed.

Trump tweeted Friday morning that the report was evidence of a "rigged system."

Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over...and so much more. A rigged system! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2017

Benjamin Wittes, a friend of Comey's who edits the blog Lawfare, defended the ousted FBI director's actions.

"This may come as a shock to Grassley and Graham and Trump, but judges sometimes do a memo/draft about an opinion before oral argument," Wittes, who is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote on Twitter.

"Smart people think ahead and prepare. That appears to be an alien notion to our current President, but that's likely what happened here."

Under Comey, the FBI was investigating whether Clinton mishandled classified information by using a private server for State Department business.