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Late Wednesday night, both The New York Times and The Washington Post released dubiously sourced reports suggested that members of the Special Counsel told other people (and in the case of the Post, those people then told other people) that Attorney General William Barr’s letter Congress was not truthful. This high-stakes game of telephone was all ABC News and NBC News needed to get there hopes up to see President Trump behind bars.
ABC congressional and anti-GOP correspondent Mary Bruce latched up the Washington Post report like it was divine scripture during World News Tonight, claiming, “an associate of the Mueller team calls the report is ‘much more acute than Barr suggested.’ Sources telling the Post, the evidence on obstruction of justice was ‘alarming and significant.’”
Of course, Bruce never made the connection that if the evidence was as “alarming and significant” as the secondary sources suggested, then there wouldn’t have been the split among the investigators.
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