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The missing FBI text messages revelation continued to snowball on Tuesday as it was learned, via the remaining 50,000 texts, that the FBI was home to a so-called “secret society” that began meeting after President Trump was elected. And despite how the revelations have been reported by other major news outlets, the three major network news outlets have been reluctant to cover them. ABC still had yet to report on the missing text messages, NBC was finally dragged to it, and CBS had started to downplay it.
After all three networks initially ignored the reports on Monday, CBS was the first to break the silence on Tuesday’s This Morning with just over three minutes of coverage. But later that evening, their coverage of the missing text messages shunt dramatically to just 36 seconds and almost seemed to paint it as just something the White House was claiming happened.
“The White House claims the investigation is biased,” declared White House Correspondent Major Garrett during CBS Evening News. “At a White House meeting Monday, attended by Sessions, White House counsel Don McGahn and F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray, the main topic was five months of missing text message between high-level F.B.I. employees, some of which have been released publicly and do demonstrate a pattern of political bias against Mr. Trump.”
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