Trump And Mark Meadows Wanted To Give Sensitive FBI Intel To Conservative Journalists

According to new reports, Donald Trump and Mark Meadows were in a race against time to get classified intelligence information redacted and declassified before they left office so that they could hand it over to sympathetic conservative journalists. The information was about the agency's investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, and for some reason the pair thought it would help them out. But the fact that it never happened might tell an even bigger story, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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The New York Times reported over the weekend that Donald Trump and Mark Meadows had a plan to get a bunch of FBI documents redacted and declassified right before they left office so that they could give them to sympathetic conservative journalists. And the reason they wanted to do this of course, was because these documents they were after were related to crossfire hurricane, which of course was the investigation in 2016 to find out if Donald Trump or any members of his campaign were involved in Russian collusion. That investigation of course did get a couple low level Trumpers, but couldn't link Trump himself to any kind of Russian collusion. And then we got the Mueller report and now the Durham investigation that's been going on for even longer than the Mueller investigation, but either way Trump and Meadows were working together and they were even working with the FBI right before they left office to get these documents redacted.

So they could hand 'em to conservative journalists. Three days, according to the report, before they left office, they had it all finalized. They were ready to go. And then suddenly they just decided, you know what? We're not gonna do it. Thanks. But, uh, no thanks. We're not gonna turn these over to journalists. And the prevailing theory that the New York Times is putting out there, and this is of course according to everybody close, they were worried about so-called privacy issues because some of the documents they were gonna send out to the public were the private text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two individuals that Donald Trump still to this day loves to talk about, oh, the lovers, Strzok and Page, as if anybody actually gives a crap. But they said, well, if you release their personal text messages, right, you're looking at some privacy issues and you could probably get sued for that.

So, you know, you don't want to do it. So allegedly Donald Trump, because of the threat of a minor civil lawsuit was like, oh God, we can't do it then. Bull, bull crap. If you believe that, then I've got a bridge over in Brooklyn to sell you folks. Because Donald Trump never in his life has been afraid of a lawsuit. He has specifically done things with the goal of being sued in the past. That dude's not afraid of a lawsuit. He's not afraid to file 'em. He's not afraid to get hit with 'em. He's not afraid to fight 'em, even with his crappy team of lawyers that he has. So I don't buy that at all. Not for a brief second do I believe that Trump and Meadows got these FBI documents and looked at them and said, oh, we could get sued. And even then, by the way, the pro it's the privacy issue because it's got their text messages in it. But those text messages of course became FBI documents that were redacted and declassified.

They could have been released and you likely wouldn't have run afoul of privacy laws. So I don't think you could even be sued for that. So why didn't they release 'em to the conservative journalists like they wanted to, huh? Do I even need to say it or does everybody understand what likely happened? They worked with the FBI, they got the documents redacted, they got 'em declassified. They looked at 'em and they said, ah. We, we can't release this. This doesn't do what we thought it would do. It doesn't make us look good and them look bad. It probably did the exact opposite folks. Trump and Meadows were not afraid of a lawsuit that likely wouldn't have happened in the first place. They were.