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While some of his liberal media colleagues were giving a megaphone to Democratic Senators demanding an FBI investigation in the attempted sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday, CNN’s Chris Cuomo was busy making false claims that the bureau had said nothing about not investigating the charges. But, in fact, they had declined to investigate.
After noting that the confirmation process had turned into a circus, Cuomo declared that “the FBI could be a cleansing agent here. Can they? Absolutely.”
“Judicial nominees get a background check from the FBI as part of the practice,” he added. “President Bush with Anita Hill, he asked for the FBI to come in reopen the background check and do it.” He then lashed out at President Trump for supposedly not doing the same thing:
CHRIS CUOMO: President Trump had said he wanted a process, but now he's saying this.
DONALD TRUMP: I don't think the FBI really should be involved because they don't want to be involved. If they wanted to be, I would certainly do that, but as you know, they say this is not really their thing.
CUOMO: None of that is true, okay. We have heard nothing from the FBI saying they don't want to do this.
Cuomo’s assertion that “we have heard nothing from the FBI saying they don't want to do this”, was a outright lie. And a total abdication of CNN’s “#FactsFirst” mantra.
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