2025-02-04 19:57:02

Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: FBI Questionnaire Edition

Among my favorite media-manufactured “controversies” are the ones where they take something that’s patently not scandalous but make hilariously desperate attempts to assert that it is. That’s what CNN has been doing this week after FBI agents who investigated Jan. 6 defendants were directed by the Trump administration to fill out a questionnaire. The document […]
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