The
Face of Evil by Any Measurement
(This
tops the list)
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President
Trump has falsely accused special counsel Robert Mueller of deleting messages
that would support the president’s contention that the Russia investigation was
out to get him.
The
provocative allegation of a “crime” by Mueller was one in a series of distorted
claims made by the president in an interview on Fox Business Network and on Twitter
on Wednesday (June 26, 2019) this one stands out as a 100% “Pants on Fire” whopper.
Trump said re: communications between
two FBI employees:
“Mueller terminated them illegally. He
terminated the emails, he terminated all of the stuff between Strzok and Page,
you know they sung like you’ve never seen. Robert Mueller terminated their text
messages together. He would – he terminated them. They’re gone. And that’s
illegal, he – that’s a crime.”
Fact: Not true.
Mueller had no role in
deleting anti-Trump text messages traded by former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and
there’s no basis for saying Mueller was involved in anything illegal.
Fact: Once Mueller learned of the
existence of the texts, which were sent before his appointment as special
counsel, he removed Strzok from his team investigating potential ties between
Russia and the Trump campaign.
Trump
appears to be referring to the fact that the FBI, for technical reasons, was
initially unable to retrieve months of text messages between the two officials.
But the FBI was ultimately able to recover them and there’s never been any
allegation that Mueller had anything to do with that process.
Other Trump
lies at the above AP link.
My 2 cents: How have we come to reach this depth of tolerating
Trump and his well over 10,000 documented lies?
Never in American history has this happened, so, this
is truly a first.
Thus, Trump alone has bragging rights to achieving that
record: “The biggest presidential liar in American history.” Yippee…!!!
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