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The Department of Justice Inspector General dropped a bombshell investigative report on Washington, D.C. on Thursday which detailed their deep dive into the FBI’s handling of the Clinton e-mail probe. It found that former FBI Director James Comey was insubordinate, validating President Trump’s decision to fire him, but it also found that a small group of FBI agents had it out to get candidate Trump. Despite the facts, both ABC and CBS tried to downplay the role those agents played in the Russia investigation.
The over 500-page report made it perfectly clear that certain members of the FBI running the investigation were interested in ending Donald Trump’s bid for president. “He's not ever going to become president, right? Right,” texted FBI lawyer Lisa Page frantically. Her lover, FBI agent Peter Strzok reassured her that “no. no, he's not. We'll stop it.” The IG found the text, among others, “implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects".
Strzok didn’t just work on the Clinton e-mail investigation, he also was working on the Russia probe into the Trump campaign. During the report on ABC’s World News Tonight, chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas hid that fact from viewers. “The report saying that message ‘implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects,’ while conceding there's no evidence that actually happened,” he asserted after reading the text message.
On CBS Evening News, Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan tried to create daylight between Strzok’s influence on the Clinton investigation and the Russia probe. She declared that no side was vindicated by the report and insisted that the focus on Strzok was primarily by Trump supporters.
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. melanie.hunter
