When This Blows Over

103. Dec. 9, 2019
It would be difficult if not impossible from a practical standpoint to list the
thousands of the media reports, from the New York Times to CNN, that have now
been proven false by information documented in Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz’s report on the FBI’s misbehavior in investigating the
Trump campaign.
Here, they will all be grouped together as one media mistake, but include nearly
every major national media outlet that falsely reported, as if fact, that the
discredited Democrat-funded “dossier” — submitted by the FBI to get a wiretap to
spy on Trump associate Carter Page — was only a “small part” of the wiretap
application. Also, the reports that Page was a Russian spy and the conduit between
Trump and Putin. Also, the many insistences that Trump was a “Putin stooge” and
coordinating with Putin or Russia, when the FBI’s own evidence now shows they
never found anything remotely close to that. In fact, they appeared to disprove it.
106. Dec. 16, 2019
The news media widely misreport that the report by Dept. of Justice Inspector
General Horowitz found “no political bias” in the Russia probe. As Horowitz made
clear in his Congressional testimony, that is false.
Instead, Horowitz gave a limited, qualified opinion about a narrow part of the
opening of the investigation, stating he could not find documentary or testimonial
evidence that the serious political bias of various FBI officials impacted the
original decision to open the probe into Trump campaign-related Americans.
Horowitz explicitly acknowledged that various FBI officials involved in the probe,
including Peter Strzok and Lisa Page had political bias against Trump.
He also stated, in Congressional testimony, that Christopher Steele, the political
opposition researcher hired by the Clinton campaign to provide the anti-Trump
“dossier” to the FBI, had political bias.
And he stated that it’s possible political bias was behind other inexplicable and
egregious errors the FBI made during the probe, which he did not say was free of
bias. Those matters, Horowitz testified, have been referred to the criminal probe
and to the FBI to handle.