Chris Wallace: DOJ IG Report โDidnโt Find the Thingsโ Trump and Barr Think It Did
Shortly after the Department of Justiceโs inspector general reported there was no political bias, and that the FBI had sufficient evidence to launch the Russia probe on Donald Trumpโs 2016 campaign, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said the real headline should be that the top watchdog โdidnโt find the thingsโ that President Trump and Attorney General William Barr have long alleged.
Minutes following Mondayโs release of the report, and after other Fox News personalities had already spun the results in a pro-Trump fashion, Wallace explained his view of the findings as โa reporterโ and not as a partisan pundit.
โRemember, this comes against the backdrop of Donald Trump talking about the investigation of him in 2016 as a political hit job at one point he talked about President Obama ordering the wiretapping of Trump Tower,โ Wallace said.
โIn one of these hearings, Attorney General Bill Barr talked about the FBI spying on the Trump campaign and later said spying is not a pejorative word. I view it is a perfectly legitimate word and usually people talk about surveillance, not spying which would seem to have a negative connotation,โ the
Fox News Sunday host continued.
Wallace noted, however, that when reading through Horowtizโs report โthe headline is they didnโt find the things that Bill Barr and Donald Trump alleged,โ adding that the inspector general found โthere was no political biasโ by FBI leadership.
โSo it seems to me that the headline here is that he basically found that the FBI conducted the investigations on the warrant on a proper legal basis,โ the Fox anchor reiterated. โThere was some misconduct and allegations by individual people but not by any of the higher-ups.โ
This wasnโt the first time on Monday that Wallace made decidedly un-Fox News-like comments about Trump-related news. During a break in the House impeachment hearing, Wallace pushed back on Clinton impeachment independent counsel Ken Starrโs assertion that the Trump impeachment was โnarrowโ and โslanted,โ noting it was based on a โmuch bigger issueโ than Bill Clinton lying about sex.
https://news.yahoo.com/chris-wallace-doj-ig-report-195335163.html
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