CONGRESS/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In his report on the origins of the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation, and in testimony before Congress on Wednesday [12-11-19], the inspector general of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, demolished President Trump’s most sensational allegations about the Russia inquiry: He concluded that the opening of the investigation was lawful and legitimate, that there was no improper ‘spying’ on the Trump campaign and that the F.B.I. wasn’t part of some ‘deep state’ conspiracy to overthrow the president. That hardly stopped Mr. Trump and his allies. The report ‘was far worse than expected,’ the president asserted — after already predicting it would be ‘devastating.’ ‘This was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it and they got caught, they got caught red-handed,’ Mr. Trump said in the Cabinet Room at the White House.”
–James B. Stewart, “Pay Attention to How Trump Talks About Investigations,” The New York Times online, December 13, 2019