READ: DOJ IG Finds There Was Sufficient Evidence To Launch Russia Probe

The Justice Department Inspector General’s office released its widely anticipated report on the origins of the Russia probe Monday. The report found, in part, that the opening of the investigation into members of President Trump 2016 campaign was proper and any political bias held by FBI employees did not influence the launch of the investigation.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1267173

Everyone in the DOJ’s IG office is a Never Trumper. That’s common knowledge.

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I believe the entire report is compromised because somewhere an FBI agent voted for a Democrat once. Any reasonable person would come to the same conclusion.

Can’t wait to see what Barr’s inky tentacles smear across this report.

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Uh-oh, somebody’s gonna suddenly “retire” tomorrow or so…

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I’m guessing next week all new government hires will start taking a loyalty oath to Donnie, this constitution thing is becoming a pain in the ass.

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Barr says report is proof that he’s right. What a fucking joke.

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Expect an updated report with Sharpie add ins and strategic blacked out words later today :joy:

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Transl:

“Fuck you, Fat Bill.”

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…Which is still a better outcome than the accident-on-I95-on-the-way-home solution.

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Someone, named the IG in question, will be out of a job by nightfall.

Or will resign ‘to spend more time with family’.

This will not go well.

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In related news, Trump henchman Barr literally attacks his own department’s report, lying that the Mueller report was “exculpatory” about Trump (when it said he committed many acts of obstruction), and falsely claims the investigation was started on flimsy grounds (which the evidence has shown to be well justified)

Barr is pure scum and deserves prison.

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reminders

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Looks like the IG chickened out. He was asked to find a plot against Trump: he found no trace of such a plot. That should be the headline, and the story for days–even Trump’s mob consigliere Barr couldn’t put a dent in the truth that Russia helped Trump get elected.

But that would have put him under the right-wing eye of Sauron. So he caved and highlighted some process errors on the FBI’s part. I’ll take odds that the “doctored email” is innocuous. It’s out there to provide Horowitz cover: “My report will please neither side.” What a load of crap.

The big question will be how the media handles it. Will this low-level lawyer be the focus of a thousand cover stories? If so, we’re dead. Or will it focus on the plain truth: Russia helped Trump in 2016, Trump welcomed it, he’s still welcoming it, and in fact collaborating with Russian in the Ukraine shenanigans.

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It’ll be the latter, considering the former is basically adding a new article to the ‘receipt’.

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Not happy with the outcome of a report you’ve been hyping for months? Expecting filet mignon and ended up with a nothingberder?

Call Gary’s Ol’time Postmovers! We can shift any goalpost you need! Just point out the offending party, and we’ll gladly declare them incompetent, incapable, or compromised (or all of the above).

Call us today at 1-800-WOMP-WOMP; and don’t forget our motto - if you’ve moved it all the way to the right, you still haven’t moved it far enough.

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:man_facepalming: Always with the extreme solutions. Calm down, buddy…

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Eventually we have to stand by the fact that truth actually matters, but that is extremely difficult at this point.

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I really need a Morris Day gif

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OMG Ivanka is a never trumpster

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You’d think the same fate would have befallen Gordon Sondland by now. Trump famously bristles at betrayal, and deals with it swiftly, in harsh terms. I think there has to be a very, very interesting story behind the scenes as to why he still has his job.

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