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To: Sdgla who wrote (1050542)	1/25/2018 10:49:50 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586621

Conservative conspiracy theory about FBI texts is bullshit, according to ... Fox News A new FoxNews.com article contradicts wild claims made by, among others, Fox News’s leading television hosts. By Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com Jan 24, 2018, 1:33pm PST Fox News just published a story that directly cuts against a conspiracy theory being pushed by the network’s television hosts, congressional Republicans, and the president himself. Yes, that Fox News. For the past few days, Fox News has been featuring wall-to-wall coverage of an unknown number of text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page that had disappeared from FBI server records. Previous Strzok and Page messages had included a number of vitriolic comments about President Trump — even a reference to an “insurance policy” against his election. So the missing texts were taken by the White House, pro-Trump Republicans in Congress, and many in the conservative media as proof that the FBI was covering up a vast anti-Trump conspiracy at the bureau. “This is like Watergate but far worse,” Sean Hannity said on his Monday night Fox show. “This reeks of law-breaking, it reeks of conspiracy, and it reeks of obstruction of justice.” Yet on Wednesday afternoon, Fox published an article on its website by reporter Jake Gibson, saying this theory was flatly wrong. Gibson writes, citing “federal law enforcement officials,” that the messages were deleted by a technical error, not malice — one that had affected not just Strzok and Page’s phones, but “thousands” of Bureau-issued devices between the dates of December 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017. “The gap in records covered a crucial period, raising suspicion among GOP lawmakers as to how those messages disappeared,” Gibson writes. “But Fox News is told that the glitch affected the phones of ‘nearly’ 10 percent of the FBI’s 35,000 employees.” So either one of two things is happening here: Fox News has gotten a huge story wrong in a way that deeply undercuts the president, or its big-name talk show hosts like Hannity have been peddling a narrative that has absolutely zero basis in fact — but dovetails directly with a broader attack on the FBI aimed at undercutting special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. We report, you decide. vox.com

To: Sdgla who wrote (1050542)	1/25/2018 11:33:07 AM
From: zzpat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586621

Trump spent years lying about every topic under the sun so your view of him is based on which lie you choose to believe. A bottle of cold piss has more value. He can't make deals with his party much less with the opposition. What can he do other than whine endlessly about how horrible the US and the world are? He never says anything positive and always puts us (the US) down. You love it...why? Because you're not normal but most of all because he has a massive inferiority complex.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1050542)	1/26/2018 10:08:01 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1586621

"Trump is doing what obama couldn’t. MAGA!" MAGA, Baby....we're #1 2017 was a disaster year for global insurers, with record weather-related costs. A report from reinsurance broker Aon Benfield found that 2017’s natural catastrophe losses were 93% higher than the average over the previous 16 years. abc.net.au The report comes as Australia’s largest global insurer QBE warned investors to brace for a significant full-year loss with chief executive Pat Regan labelling the cost of the catastrophes as “unprecedented”. “2017 was a one-in-100-year event for global insurers,” Morningstar analyst David Ellis told the ABC. abc.net.au