Chuck Todd Accuses AG of ’Factless Conspiracy Theory’
by Carrie Sheffield on April 17, 2019
NBC’s Chuck Todd accused Attorney General William Barr of a “factless conspiracy theory†when the attorney general said that the Trump campaign had been surveilled — or spied on — by the FBI.
The Wall Street Journal’s Holman W. Jenkins explains the problem with Todd’s logic: “A synonym for spying is ‘foreign intelligence surveillance’—the name of the court to which the FBI appealed four times to spy on a Trump campaign associate. This is a fact. Mr. Barr did not say such spying was unwarranted. A conspiracy theory is what MSNBC promoted on its air for two years with the Trump collusion story.
“What exactly is wrong with Mr. Todd’s brain? He confuses two basic categories: good/bad and true/false. He believes he’s speaking in the journalistic language of true/false, but he really means: While it may be false that Trump colluded with Russia, this is a pro-Trump talking point so it’s bad to dwell on it. And while it may be true the FBI spied on the Trump campaign, this is also a pro-Trump talking point so it’s good not to acknowledge it.â€
https://www.aim.org/aim-column/chuck-todd-accuses-ag-of-factless-conspiracy-theory/
