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MSNBC host and self-appointed referee of American politics, Chuck Todd was visibly irritated Wednesday evening after Attorney General William Barr admitted before Congress that the Trump campaign was spied on in 2016, and he planned to investigate it. Suggesting Barr was perpetuating a “fact-less conspiracy theory”, Todd denied known facts of the case and spun a series of falsehoods while declaring Barr had “gaslit the country”.
“Using the word ‘spying’ plays into the President's language and argument that the Russia investigation, to him, is just a witch hunt,” Todd proclaimed after the media, for two years, promised us that collusion was real. “And every time they've brought up this allegation, there has been zero factual basis for it.”
Except, there was a factual basis for it. As the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross noted in his report about Barr’s comments: “President Donald Trump and other Republicans have dubbed the counterintelligence probe ‘Spygate,’ especially regarding the FBI’s use of an informant named Stefan Halper. Halper, a former Cambridge professor, made contact with at least three Trump campaign advisers, Carter Page, Sam Clovis and George Papadopoulos.”
Ross is regarded as a knowledgeable voice on the origins of the Trump-Russia probe since he has investigated it for years.
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