Trump says new FBI texts are a 'bombshell.' Theyâre not.
On Wednesday morning   President Donald Trump  tweeted this  in all caps: "NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!"
Here's what  he 's referring to: Fox News reported on Wednesday that FBI lawyer Lisa Page told her lover Peter Strzok  an FBI agent  in a September 2016 text message that Obama wanted "to know everything we're doing." The two FBI officials are viewed by conservatives as the prime examples of alleged widespread anti-Trump bias among federal law enforcement  and have been targets of Republicans before.
Conservatives â including  the president  â quickly pounced on the texts. They said the texts were further evidence of the anti-Trump conspiracy during the Obama administration to minimize the probe into Hillary Clinton's emails.
Asked on Fox & Friends to interpret the text  House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that "it means the president [Obama] wants to know what they're doing to stop  Trump ." Some conservatives also believe the effort to depose  Trump  continues within special counsel Robert Mueller's probe  which  among other things  looks into possible collusion between Russia and the  Trump  campaign.
The answer lies perhaps in the timing of the Fox News piece  which comes just days after a Republican effort to make look  Trump  look good failed â and days before  Trump  could squash a Democratic effort that could make  him  look bad.
Why Donald Trump makes Democratic voters uneasy about Medicare-for-all
On Wednesday morning   President Donald Trump  tweeted this  in all caps: "NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!"
Here's what  he 's referring to: Fox News reported on Wednesday that FBI lawyer Lisa Page told her lover Peter Strzok  an FBI agent  in a September 2016 text message that Obama wanted "to know everything we're doing." The two FBI officials are viewed by conservatives as the prime examples of alleged widespread anti-Trump bias among federal law enforcement  and have been targets of Republicans before.
Conservatives â including  the president  â quickly pounced on the texts. They said the texts were further evidence of the anti-Trump conspiracy during the Obama administration to minimize the probe into Hillary Clinton's emails.
Asked on Fox & Friends to interpret the text  House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that "it means the president [Obama] wants to know what they're doing to stop   [TGT]  ." Some conservatives also believe the effort to depose   [TGT] continues within special counsel Robert Mueller's probe  which  among other things  looks into possible collusion between Russia and the   [TGT] campaign.
The answer lies perhaps in the timing of the Fox News piece  which comes just days after a Republican effort to make look   [TGT]   look good failed â and days before   [TGT]   could squash a Democratic effort that could make   [TGT]   look bad.
Why  [TGT]  makes Democratic voters uneasy about Medicare-for-all