New DOJ Report Debunks Trump’s Conspiracy Theories
The FBI made serious errors in its Russia investigation. But there was no plot against the president.
Just the facts.
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My Bloomberg Opinion colleague Eli Lake has a good summary of the report from Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, on the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and contacts with Donald Trump’s campaign. For a longer analysis, see Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare; for a quicker one, see this Twitter thread.
But while I agree with Lake that some Democrats “might want to show a bit more humility” about law enforcement and national-security operations after this report — which turned up a number of significant flaws in how the FBI handled the probe — I disagree with his assertion that Republicans are merely “challenging its findings.”