GOP talking points are loud, not necessarily revelatory

Supporters of President Donald Trump are seizing on newly released FBI reports to argue that the law enforcement agency had clear warnings within weeks after the election that the former British intelligence officer who authored a disputed dossier about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia was intent on preventing the real estate mogul from becoming president.

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“These new Bruce Ohr FBI 302s show an unprecedented and irregular effort by the FBI, DOJ, and State Department to dig up dirt on President Trump using the conflicted Bruce Ohr, his wife, and the Clinton/DNC spies at Fusion GPS,” said Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, the conservative group who obtained the records through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. “The FISA courts weren’t informed of this corrupted process when they were asked to approve and reapprove extraordinary spy warrants targeting President Trump.”

However, the first interview with Ohr — at least in the files released Thursday — was more than a month after the FBI asked a judge to approve surveillance on Page on October 21, 2016.

That application makes clear that the FBI was already dealing with Steele directly and includes a cautionary footnote disclosing that “a U.S.-based law firm” hired Fusion’s owner Glenn Simpson to conduct research on Trump. (Neither Steele, Simpson or Trump were mentioned by name.)

“The FBI speculates that the identified U.S. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign,” the application said.

  

While it's important to note that the FISA application was made before the Ohr interview, I would just like to point out that someone wanting to make sure Trump wasn't elected is NOT a bad thing. If the person passionate about that was aware of Trump's criminal money laundering activity and his usefulness as a Russian agent, one would HOPE that person would try to obtain evidence to prevent his election. It's never mentioned even by anti-Trumpers. If someone had tried to prevent Hitler from becoming Fuhrer, we would be celebrating that person.  In fact, we already do that in movies and stories about the people who even tried to assassinate Hitler.

Trump will be tweeting about this, and retweeting Trump fellator Tom Fitton, something he does regularly.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.