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Appearing on NBC’s Today Wednesday morning, left-wing MSNBC legal correspondent Ari Melber hurled an accusation, without evidence, that the Department of Justice was lying about the reasoning behind the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Starting off a panel discussion, co-host Savannah Guthrie wondered: “...on the bombshell meter, where does this rate?” Melber proclaimed: “This is huge. The letter doesn’t sound true from the DOJ because it’s not true.”
Melber was referring to a memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein providing a detailed, point-by-point recommendation on why Comey should be removed. The NBC analyst dismissed the letter, providing this juvenile summary of its contents: “...the letter, though, from this DOJ under Donald Trump says the main problem was that the approach by Director Comey was essentially too mean to Hillary Clinton. That is at odds with everything the candidate said.”