President Donald Trump has declared that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s reputation right now is “the worst in history,” and on Monday he said that some of the officials who have pursued investigations of him “have done some very, very evil things, very bad things -- I would say treasonous things against our country.”

The FBI responded the next day ... with Twitter shade.

FBI Records Vault, the “official FBI Records Management Division” account, tweeted out the bureau’s publicly available Trump Organization file.

Curious social-media denizens immediately started downloading the heavily redacted FBI file, which includes more than 30 years of investigative notes about the president’s private business. And, of course, they started tweeting about what they found in it.

The revelations range from a purported lottery scam undertaken by Trump Organization staffers to the discovery of a hidden camera in the apartment of Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples. (Trump apparently was worried about some specific nude photos of Maples.) There’s also a note about a New York housing commissioner reporting “a telephone call at home at approximately 7:00 am on 4/20/82 threatening his life over a tax abatement issue concerning DONALD TRUMP.”

Mr Calamari! How you doin?!! Mob much? No shock to see you pop up in the Trump FBI records vault. Your appearance is almost Goodfellas like. Nudes of Marla Maples..planted guns..dirty cops. Delicious. pic.twitter.com/YPCv1b4LvW — Roxy (@roxydavis99) March 26, 2019

Ain’t the internet age grand? “This is my new favorite tweet,” author – and Trump critic – Molly Jong-Fast said of FBI Records Vault’s file dump.

But not every Trump detractor thought it amusing that the FBI aired the president’s dirty laundry online. Some commenters said the voluminous file was proof that the bureau doesn’t do its job, at least when it comes to white-collar crime.

“So where was the FBI all these years?!” one Twitter user replied to the bureau’s tweet. “Why were Trump and his criminal enterprise never brought to justice? How the hell did he get so close to even being considered a serious nominee? You guys FAILED. You should be ashamed. And now you’re being funny?! Shame on you.”

FBI Records Vault’s casual Twitter slap at the president isn’t its first. On March 1, it tweeted out the file for the Kushner Companies.

-- Douglas Perry

@douglasmperry

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