Analysis: The GOP’s increasing embrace of Trump’s Russia conspiracy theory
In this file photo from April 21, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his wife, Ann Cabell Standish, arrive for Easter services at a church in Washington. By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 11 at 9:25 AM On Friday, the former general counsel of the FBI, Jim Baker, decided to speak out.
Whatever legitimate questions might be asked about the process for obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants or the Justice Department’s initial inquiries in the Russia probe, it’s worth noting just how long this “coup” narrative took to build on the political right — and how much GOP leaders initially eschewed it.
Then-Rep. Trey Gowdy went on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and said, “I actually don’t think it has any impact on the Russia probe, for this reason: There is a Russia investigation without a [Steele] dossier. So to the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the FISA process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower. ... The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos’s meeting in Great Britain. It also doesn’t have anything to do with obstruction of justice.
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