David Corn: "How a GOP congressman tried to USE me to protect Trump"

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David Corn
From my new article on how a GOP congressman tried to use me to protect Trump, undermine the FBI, and end the Mueller investigation.


It was a Google Alert that notified me I was part of what was then the latest Republican conspiracy theory.

The message, in mid-January, pointed me to a column by Rep. Jim Jordan, a very conservative Republican from a very Republican district in Ohio, posted on the very conservative site Newsmax. Jordan, who was an assistant wrestling coach before entering politics, had drawn up a list of “18 top questions to be answered about Russia and the FBI.” I was Question No. 16.

In his introduction to this list, Jordan noted, “The American people deserve to know the extent of Russian interference into our free elections.” Yet for weeks, Jordan had been one of the leading Republicans decrying the investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal led by special counsel Robert Mueller. His 18 questions contained not one query about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s covert attack on the 2016 election, nor did they consider any of the multiple interactions between the Trump campaign and Russians.

Jordan’s main focus was a very different claim: that the FBI had secretly plotted to keep Donald Trump from winning. It was a manifestation of what has become the dominant line of attack as conservatives seek to torpedo the Trump-Russia investigation.

Republicans have sought to create confusion so that Mueller’s probe is seen as partisan and untrustworthy.
His was hardly the first attempt to undermine the effort to uncover the full truth of what happened in 2016. Since Trump took office, he and his Republican allies have tried one approach after the other to distract and deflect attention from the scandal. With each gambit, they have sought to create confusion so that Mueller’s probe and the congressional investigations are not seen as legitimate and necessary but as partisan-driven and untrustworthy.





MORE:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/how-the-gop-pulled-me-into-its-war-on-the-fbi/

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. What can one say other than wow.

Corn once again burns a Rethug attempt to ruin his investigative Journalism. Hunch has been,once he went public with the Steele Dossier,you just knew the Right Wing Trumpers were going to do their best to discredit him.