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<\/a><\/p>\nIn an interview with Ainsley Earhardt of Fox and Friends, the Fox News host unleashed a barrage of brutal softballs at the President. She prefaced her inquiries with flattering language about how smart he was for pretending to have tapes of himself and James Comey (which is potentially unlawful witness tampering). And she comforted him with partisan assertions that “Democrats are in denial.”<\/em> But Earhardt laid it on extra thick when the issue of Trump’s collusion with Russia came up:<\/p>\n “Robert Mueller, do you think he should recuse himself? He is good friends with James Comey. He’s hired some attorneys that were part of Hillary Clinton’s foundation and have given money to President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns. Should he recuse himself?”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Could Earhardt have composed a more fawning, servile, obsequious question? She must be so doubtful that he could come up with a coherent response, she provided one for him. Trump eagerly embraced the leading question and blindly agreed that Mueller is “very, very good friends with Comey.”<\/em> Then he whined that “there has been no collusion, no obstruction, and virtually everybody agrees to that.”<\/em> Everybody? Well, that’s if you don’t count dozens of legal experts, intelligence professionals, and investigators currently researching the matter. But then he went even further over the edge:<\/p>\n “I can say that the people that have been hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton. I mean the whole thing is ridiculous, if you wanna know the truth.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Indeed, it is ridiculous. But not in the way Trump thinks. PolitiFact reviewed his remarks<\/a><\/strong> and found them top be “Mostly False.”<\/em> As it turns out, only three of the eight attorneys hired by Mueller were Clinton supporters. And any associations that any of them had were incidental and fully permissible under the “Rules of Professional Responsibility.”<\/em> That assessment, by the way, came from Peter Carr, a spokesperson for Jeff Seesion’s Justice Department. And it was consistent with the summary ruling by PolitiFact:<\/p>\n “Three of the eight available Mueller hires made campaign contributions to Clinton, which undermines Trump\u2019s statement that all are Clinton supporters. Furthermore, none of them have worked for Clinton directly. Two represented either the Clinton Foundation or an aide, never her, and working for WilmerHale, which has also represented key members of Trump\u2019s White House.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So Trump\u2019s allegations (and that of many of his media surrogates) that the investigation is biased politically and motivated against him, is a bald-faced lie. If only that were an isolated incident in this presidency. Unfortunately it is the rule, rather than the exception. And anyone who takes Trump at his word is shamelessly begging to be made a fool of and deliberately deceived.<\/p>\n How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock: "There has been no obstruction. There has been no collusion. There has been leaking by Comey." –@POTUS<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/tqpEuMNUJM<\/a><\/p>\n — FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) June 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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