At the beginning of the month, Trump tweeted that the FBI’s “reputation is in Tatters – worst in History!” On Dec. 23, Trump fired off a series of tweets against FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a career FBI agent whose wife ran for a state Senate seat in Virginia in 2015 and received donations from the Democratic Party and then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s political action committee. The day after Christmas, Trump tweeted “FBI TAINTED” in citing the morning’s Fox and Friends show and called the Steele dossier, compiled by a former MI6 officer, a “pile of garbage.”