Analysis: Trump and Sean Hannity are at best very confused about how the Russia investigation began
Fox News host Sean Hannity By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 28 at 10:04 AM After spending a decent amount of energy excoriating the media for its coverage of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, President Trump called into Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Wednesday evening for an interview.
Hannity, though, agreed on Wednesday that the FBI was acting improperly. He pointed to what he called “the FISA abuse scandal” — referring to the process of obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants that allow the government to monitor communications involving possible foreign agents. What’s more, Page wasn’t even part of the campaign in October, having resigned in September after his trip to Moscow came under scrutiny.
Trump continued: “When you look at what happened, and when it happened, and the money that was spent, the millions and millions on the phony dossier, and then they used the dossier to start things, and there was no truth whatsoever. It was a fraud and paid for by Hillary Clinton and paid for by the Democrats and the [Democratic National Committee]. It’s hard to believe.”
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