Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has completed his lengthy review of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia — and his report, released Monday, fails to back up President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about a “deep state” plot against him.
In the report, Horowitz wrote that the decision to open the investigation “complied with [Justice] Department and FBI policies.” And, he said, he did not conclude that top officials were driven by “political bias or improper motivation” in doing so.
Horowitz’s report does not confirm any of the theories that Trump and his people have floated and outright debunks some.
The inspector general failed to find wrongdoing in the FBI’s opening of the Russia investigation. Donald Trump and his Attorney General Bill Barr didn’t like that. Instead of disputing the report, Trump and Barr announced that it said the exact opposite of what it actually did.
This development suggests we are entering a new phase of disinformation, when Trumpians no longer try to spin facts but simply make their own and sell their false narrative.
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