Memo undermines conspiracy theory
By John Cassidy
February 2, 2018
The memo .. is four pages long. Its authors should have stopped at three .. because the fourth serves only to undermine the .. theory .. that the Russia investigation is a .. hit job engineered by the .. Clinton campaign, the Obama Administration, and anti-Trump elements inside the F.B.I.
To believe this .. theory .. you have to believe that the investigation began with the infamous "Steele dossier" ...
But ... the F.B.I. and the Justice Department didn’t base their application to monitor Page entirely on Steele’s work. And .. the Trump-Russia investigation didn’t begin with the Steele dossier. These .. facts are .. in that lonely paragraph on the fourth page ... Far from confirming the conspiracy theory promoted by Trump, Hannity, and Fitton, the .. memo contradicts a central element of it ...
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"If Trump uses the memo as a pretext to fire Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, who oversees Mueller’s investigation, Ryan and other senior Republicans will be wholly complicit in causing a constitutional crisis."
