Stop Trying To Make Watergate Happen The Russia and FBI probes lure political partisans with the prospect of winning political battles by making an end run around ordinary politics. By Robert Tracinski
February 8, 2018 The sensational release of the Nunes memo on Friday, and a whole series of new releases of information that are going to start coming thick and fast in its wake, brought the controversy over the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign fully to the public’s attention.
If you’re trying to get up to speed, it feels a bit like suddenly immersing yourself in theories about the Kennedy assassination. There are so many partial and equivocal facts that it’s easy for people to spin them in a partisan way, particularly if they’re hoping it will turn into another Watergate. And both sides want it to be Watergate, either for the Trump administration or for the Obama administration.
So let’s try to outline the basic facts of this story and figure out what we can say is definitely true, without stretching for interpretation or saying “if this turns out to be true.†Because that kind of speculation is about 90 percent of what we’re hearing right now. Let’s start with what we know and don’t know about the Trump campaign.
What we know: The Trump campaign was connected to people who had shady connections to Russia.
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