"They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign," President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter about the FBI. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Trump equates FBI's Russia probe with Florida shooting

President Donald Trump late Saturday night suggested that the FBI's failure to prevent this week's mass shooting in Florida could be due to the bureau's ongoing probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties to the president's campaign.

"Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable," the president wrote on Twitter. "They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign — there is no collusion."


The president's urge for the FBI to "get back to the basics" comes as some leaders, including Florida Gov. Rick Scott, have called for the bureau's director Chris Wray to resign in the wake of the mass shooting. The FBI announced after Wednesday's shooting at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland that it failed to follow up on a tip it received in January about the confessed gunman, Nikolas Cruz, which included information about Cruz's "gun ownership, desire to kill people and erratic behavior."

Saturday's tweet is far from the first time that Trump has suggested curtailing, or even ending the Russia investigation, which he has repeatedly called a "witch hunt."

On Friday, Mueller's team announced that a federal grand jury had indicted 13 Russian nationals for illegal election activity. The indictment goes into particular detail about how the Russians visited the U.S. and sought to gain insight into America's domestic politics before orchestrating a disinformation campaign aimed at sowing discord and boosting Trump's chances.

Unlike the president, Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster was emphatic Saturday that the most recent indictment leaves no doubt that Russia meddled in the election, saying "the evidence is incontrovertible and available in the public domain."

In a later tweet, Trump said that McMaster forgot to mention that the Russian interference has no influence on the outcome of the election.

"General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Remember the Dirty Dossier, Uranium, Speeches, Emails and the Podesta Company!"

Friday's indictment did not reach a conclusion on whether or not Russian actions might have changed the outcome of the election in any way, nor did it guarantee that further legal action against the president or members of his campaign might not occur.