Trump and Rudy Giuliani tweeting bogus claims about missing texts from ex-FBI agents Strzok and Page

[DonViejo]

TRAVIS GETTYS
15 DEC 2018 AT 12:21 ET

President Donald Trump tweeted out a blatantly false claim intended to undermine the federal investigation of his campaign ties to Russia.

The president and his attorney Rudy Giuliani each passed along bogus claims that 19,000 texts between two former FBI officials had been destroyed by investigators — which contradicted new findings by the Justice Department’s inspector general.

Link to tweet

Giuliani continued tweeting misleading claims about the story, citing conservative media reports, throughout Saturday morning, and then Trump chimed in.

Link to tweet

In fact, the Justice Department’s watchdog has found no evidence law enforcement officials intentionally destroyed text messages — which were ultimately recovered by the FBI.

Strzok was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation after text messages expressing anti-Trump views were discovered, and he was ultimately fired by the FBI and Page, his colleague and girlfriend, resigned.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-rudy-giuliani-tweeting-bogus-claims-missing-texts-ex-fbi-agents-strzok-page/

[Grasswire2]

1. tap dancing to keep the deplorables in line...

shiny object.

Another is the spat Flynn has cooked up with Comey.

[Sneederbunk]

2. The Flynn filing was the setup for this.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. So Mueller wanted this reaction? Will it help his case?

[Sneederbunk]

5. Flynn's filing, not Mueller's.

Flynn inserted names of FBI questioners McCabe and Stroyk.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Ok. Having trouble keeping all of this stuff straight! So this is

Flynn still hoping for a pardon, then?

[Sneederbunk]

7. Not necessarily. Just Flynn trying to make himself look good with Trump and Deploables.

[underpants]

3. I googled 19,000 texts

The Federalis
infoWars
AR15.com ?
PJmedia

[Brother Buzz]

8. To be fair.....

www.hannity.com and www.washingtontimes.com are helping to pitch the bogus information, too.

Most curious, legitimate 'fake' news sources mention 'bogus' in their headlines

[LakeSuperiorView]

9. At the pace that it takes dipshit to compose tweets,

it would take over a year of 8 hour days to produce 19,000 texts. That is doing nothing but writting text messages for the entire work day, 7 days a week.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Get Rudi G. for obstruction of justice here...clearly trying to inject confusion and disarray ....

into valid criminal and civil proceedings...

[VOX]

11. Hope most Americans are finally bored & sickened by this perverse version of "Groundhog Day"

if it weren’t a genuine existential threat to democracy and the rule of law, it would be utterly comical as satire, along the lines of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove.”

Buckle up, America.