On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe had on Political Correspondent Jonathan Lemire to talk about the recent release of documents regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. Instead of actually getting to the root of the issue that the documents were addressing, Lemire decided to call DNI Tulsi Gabbard's findings a “conspiracy theory.”
Lemire started the downplaying instantly on the recent Russia assessment:
You’re right, there’s nothing new here. The DNI, who is doing President Trump’s bidding, it would appear, trying to also get back in his good graces after—had a falling out over the strike in Iran. And she was sort of left on the outside of that, is now carrying water here of these unfounded conspiracy theories about what role Obama and his team did in 2016.
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