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The network that catapulted “gaslighting” into our vernacular has been blowing a lot of hot air since the release of the DOJ inspector general report on the origins of the Russia investigation on Tuesday. Immediately following its release, the public understood that the FBI had lied to the FISA court to get surveillance warrants to spy on Trump campaign aides. Despite those facts, CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo filled the “facts first” segment of Cuomo Prime Time with assertions there was no spying.
“Trump is the victim. All right. That was what was promised from this IG's report,” he bitterly declared as if he was about to take down the claim, walking over to a table with printed out reports stacked on it. “476 pages, no Trump as victim. Trump even says that that's what this says. It doesn't. He's lying to you about the report,” he shouted as he angrily pounded his finger on the IG report.
He pleaded with his audience: “Please do yourself the favor, do the homework. He's lying to you. You can discover it if you want.” What came next was a string of falsehoods that proved he and CNN were out to craft their own false reality, to gaslight their audience:
Just like there was no proof of him being a victim in the 568-page report that the IG put out in June of last year, even though they told you it would. It wasn't there in the 412-pages of the declassified Carter Page FISA application. There were mistakes, but he was no victim. The 83-pages that examined James Comey’s behavior. The 39-page report that examined Andrew McCabe. This President and his attorney general are distorting fact and playing with the system.
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