{"id":135657,"date":"2017-12-14T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135657"},"modified":"2017-12-15T00:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:51:26","slug":"but-their-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/but-their-text-messages.html","title":{"rendered":"“But their text messages!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a sign the Mueller investigation is actually turning up dirt — and threatens to turn in far more — that the White House, the conservative media machine, and now the GOP Congress are doing all they can to discredit Mueller, the investigation, and, now the FBI as a whole.<\/p>\n

Yet, as the article notes, the personal text messages being bandied about as proof that the investigation, and the Bureau as a whole, is irrecoverably tainted, are no worse than statements publicly made (or publicly reported) about Trump by his own Secretary of State, and by various GOP congressional figures. The breathless poop-flinging about the matter is not only hypocritical, it honestly doesn’t make any sense. It’s just meant to create an environment for a particular narrative: Trump is innocent because you can’t trust the people who say he’s not.<\/p>\n


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\nFBI Agents Sending Anti-Trump Texts Is Not a Scandal<\/a><\/span>
\nIt\u2019s just another pretext to quash the Mueller probe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s a sign the Mueller investigation is actually turning up dirt — and threatens to turn in far more — that the White House, the conservative media machine, and now the GOP Congress are doing all they can to discredit Mueller, the investigation, and, now the FBI as a whole. 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