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With the Justice Department Inspector General rocking Washington, D.C. on Thursday with their damning report exposing the anti-Trump bias of senior FBI investigators, many in the liberal media were desperate to spin the findings to fit their narrative. During The Lead on CNN, host Jake Tapper took one of the greatest leaps and suggested that the consequence of biased FBI members was the election of President Trump.
Tapper’s assertion came after former FBI agent turned CNN analyst Josh Campbell opined about how “the bottom line” for him was that the report said the outcome of the Clinton investigation wasn’t tainted by biased. “I'm not sure that's right, Josh,” Tapper said. What followed next was a contrived explanation of how anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok influenced the outcome of the election against Hillary Clinton:
So here's what happened. Peter Strzok, according to the Inspector General, sat on the laptop, they find no persuasive evidence as to why they didn't immediately go into the Weiner laptop when they got it at the end of September. I want to get you to play in this. Jeff. The only reason they look into it is because people at the U.S.'s attorney's office for the Southern District of New York start asking about it, that's what the Inspector General says. Then they do the warrant, then Comey notifies Congress, then history perhaps is changed.
“So Strzok, if you read between the lines of this report, may have actually-- his bias for Hillary might have cost Hillary the election,” Tapper declared as fact. But in order for Tapper’s argument to be feasible, one needed to buy into Clinton campaign talking points that former FBI Director James Comey stole the election from her. Yet there was no evidence of that.
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