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On Thursday it was announced that the missing FBI text messages were recovered and were heading to Congress for review. With this development in the saga, the liberal media finally had interest and pushed a narrative that there was nothing to worry about, there wasn’t a scandal to be had, and those who claimed there was were being political. And during the evening network newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight was eager to push that narrative, while NBC didn’t cover the development at all.
The goal of the report by ABC’s Senior Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas was to discredit anyone who claimed the texts showed there was serious anti-Trump bias at the FBI, and he twisted, mislead, and omitted the facts to do it.
“President Trump and his Republican allies made it out to be a scandal,” Thomas spat. “The idea that the FBI lost months of personal text messages between an FBI agent who served on the special counsel's team and an FBI lawyer.”
Although he did read some anti-Trump text messages, Thomas tried to disprove the assertion that the FBI officials involved, agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page, were solely against the President. “The texts fueling Republican claims that the FBI is biased against Trump, even though some of the messages also trash liberals,” he pathetically argued as he read anti-Sanders texts sent during the election.
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