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Senate Republicans grilled Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Wednesday, on how his probe could determine there was no political bias at the FBI against then-candidate Trump, when he couldn’t uncover a reasonable explanation for their “gross abuse” of the system, as Attorney General William Barr put it. Well, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir continued to carry water for the FBI and claimed there was “no spying” despite the fact, the IG report exposed that there was.
Horowitz may have been using legalese to claim the FBI assets (some wearing wires) sent to monitor Trump campaign staff were actually “confidential human sources,” but any reasonable person understood them to be spies.
But reason didn’t preclude Muir from declaring falsehoods to be facts. “And now to the battle on Capitol Hill tonight over the report on the Russia investigation that determined no deep state, no spying on the Trump campaign. The author of that report, the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, saying the launch of the Russia investigation was, in fact, justified,” he proclaimed at the top of the segment.
During the report on the hearing, chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas noted that, “President Trump tweeting from the White House, ‘They spied on my campaign!’” As the apparent rebuttal to the President, Thomas played this soundbite of California Democrat Dianne Feinstein getting Horowitz to say there was “no bias”.
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