Devin Nunes admits his memo cherry-picked information to prove anti-Trump bias at the FBI
Republican leaders have admitted that the FBI included the partisan nature of the Trump-Russia dossier when introducing it as evidence in a surveillance warrant — an admission countering the crux of one of the arguments at the heart of the House GOP’s controversial “Justice Department abuses” memo.
Politico reported Monday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA), the White House ally behind the memo, told “Fox & Friends” over the weekend that contrary to what his memo alleges, the “FBI application did refer to a political entity connected to the dossier.”
In attempts to prove anti-Trump bias pushed FBI officials to introduce the dossier in their warrant requests to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, the memo’s writers insisted the FBI left the political goals of Fusion GPS, the firm that wrote the dossier, out of the warrant application.
“Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior and FBI officials,” the memo read.
The country’s last presidential election was wide open, with incumbent president Barack Obama termed out of office and his vice president, Joe Biden, opting not to run as his replacement. While the vacancy looked like an opportunity for the 16 Republican men (and one woman) who ran in 2016, Democrats essentially cleared the field for Hillary Clinton, the first woman to win the party’s presidential nomination. Her only two challengers were white men; one who eventually became a star at the center of his own political movement and the other who was shortly reduced to strumming his guitar shirtless for attention.
Progressive reformer Tiffany Cabán has declared victory in her campaign versus Melinda Katz in the Queens District Attorney race.
With 99% of precincts reporting, Cabán held a lead of 1,090 votes, The New York Times reports.
Cabán was backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Katz was backed by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), who chairs the Queens Democratic Party, and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
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President Donald Trump trails all of his Democratic rivals in hypothetical matchups of the 2020 presidential race, according to the result of a new poll released Tuesday.
This article originally appeared on Salon.
The survey, conducted by Emerson Polling, found that the president lags behind former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., by 10 points nationally — 45 percent to 55 percent. He also trails Sen. Elizabeth Warren by six points — 47 percent to 53 percent —and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg by four points — 48 percent to 52 percent.
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