Fox News latest bombshell on Obama and the FBI is a total fraud

[Gothmog]

The latest RWNJ conspiracy theory is bogus https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-latest-bombshell-fraud-def2fc228456/

There is just one problem: The entire Fox News story is a fraud.

It’s simply not a plausible interpretation of the September 2, 2016 text exchange that Obama was seeking a briefing on the Clinton email investigation.

FBI Director James Comey closed the Clinton email investigation on July 5, 2016. It was not reopened until October. The same trove of text messages released Tuesday reveals that the FBI did not even become aware of additional emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop until September 28, 2016.

Fox News suggests the texts were referring to talking points regarding the Clinton email case. But those talking points, according to documents released by the Senate, were completed in June. That makes sense because they were prepared in advance of Comey’s announcement in July.

So what was Obama interested in? Most likely, he wanted information about the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, which was active on September 2, 2016. Obama has publicly said that he confronted Putin about election interference a few days later at the Group of 20 meeting in China, telling the Russian leader to “cut it out.”

“t has to be about the Russia probe,” former Department of Justice official Matthew Miller told ThinkProgress in reference to the September 2, 2016 texts.

[Gothmog]

1. Update

This RWNJ conspiracy theory has been debunked by the WSJ https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-latest-bombshell-fraud-def2fc228456/

UPDATE (2/7, 4:32PM): The Wall Street Journal, speaking to associates of Strzok and Page, confirms that the texts refer to the Russia investigation not the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Text messages from 2016 show preparation to brief Barack Obama about Russia’s interference in that year’s election, according to associates of the FBI employees involved in the exchange, not, as a Republican senator suggested, meddling by the then-president in the federal Hillary Clinton email investigation.

[TubbersUK]

2. The WSJ fact checked it too, with the same verdict - 'BOGUS'

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[Gothmog]

3. From my twitter feed

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[malaise]

4. Keep it simple

Fox news is a total fraud

[Cha]

5. Of course it is... they make shite outta

thin shite.

[Gothmog]

6. Bombshell Text Messages Dont Show Conspiracy

Another RWNJ conspiracy theory falls apart https://politicalwire.com/2018/02/07/text-messages-dont-show-conspiracy-trump/

Text messages from 2016 show preparation to brief President Obama about Russia’s interference in that year’s election, not, as Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested, meddling by the then-president in the federal Hillary Clinton email investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Republicans and the president himself have cited the messages as evidence that the Russian probe amounts to a wider plot to undermine him.”

Earlier, Trump had tweeted: “New FBI texts are bombshells!”

[Yavin4]

7. Fox News, are you done yet?

These "bombshells" are getting tiresome.

[Corgigal]

8. Fox News is under entertainment

Not news. Can we sue for illegal representation? They should be fox entertainment that may or may not be of any value.