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Fox's Chris Wallace: IG report headline is 'It didn't find the things that Bill Barr and Donald Trump alleged'
"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace said the headline on the highly anticipated report released Monday by the Justice Department's inspector general (IG) will be that it "didn't find the things that Bill Barr and Donald Trump alleged" regarding spying on the Trump campaign.

“Remember, this comes against the backdrop of Donald Trump talking about the investigation of him in 2016 as a political hit job," Wallace said to "America's Newsroom" anchors Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith after the report was released. "At one point, he talked about President Obama ordering the wiretapping of the Trump Tower."

“In one of his first hearings as attorney general, Bill Barr talked about the FBI spying on the Trump campaign and later said spying is not a pejorative word, I view it is a perfectly legitimate word and usually people talk about surveillance, not spying which would seem to have a negative connotation,” Wallace added.

The watchdog report released Monday — while being critical of certain aspects of the FBI’s handling of the investigation — found the bureau was not motivated by political bias in opening investigations into associates of the Trump campaign in 2016.

Trump and his allies have long alleged the FBI acted improperly in its investigation and some in the GOP have already seized on the wrongdoing cited in the report.

“When you read the report, and we're obviously all skimming through it, the headline is they didn’t find the things that Bill Barr and Donald Trump alleged,” Wallace said. "He found, [Inspector General] Michael Horowitz, found there was no political bias by [then-FBI Director] James Comey or his deputy, Andrew McCabe."

"It certainly does say there were a lot of misstatements, improprieties, carelessness on the part of lower level FBI people," Wallace continued before later adding, "There were some misconduct by individual people, but not by the higher-ups."

The IG report says Horowitz "did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the decisions to open the four individual investigations."

Horowitz later concluded that the bureau had “an authorized purpose” to launch an investigation to “obtain information about, or to protect against, a national security threat or federal crime, even though the investigation also had the potential to impact constitutionally protected activity.”
 

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Freeloading Rusty

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Democrats unveil 2 impeachment articles against President Donald Trump
House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment Tuesday against President Donald Trump - abuse of power and obstruction of Congress -- pushing toward historic votes over charges he corrupted the U.S. election process and endangered national security.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by the chairmen of the impeachment inquiry committees, stood at the Capitol in what she called a "solemn act.'' Voting is expected in a matter of days in the Judiciary Committee and by Christmas in the full House.

"He endangers our democracy, he endangers our national security," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., the Judiciary chairman announcing the charges before a portrait of George Washington. "Our next election is at risk... That is why we must act now."
 

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Donald Trump pays $2 million to charity, ending the Trump Foundation saga
President Donald Trump paid a total of $2 million to charity as part of an agreement to end a lawsuit accusing him and his family of illegally mismanaging his charitable foundation.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that Trump made good on the payment to eight different charities, which was the last outstanding term of a settlement agreement with James' office.

The lawsuit, originally filed in June 2018, accused Trump and his three eldest children of using the Donald J. Trump Foundation to advance his self-interests and boost his presidential campaign, in part by allowing Trump's campaign staff to orchestrate and run a televised fundraiser for veterans' organizations in Iowa in 2016.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla ordered the personal $2 million payment from the president last month after Trump and the Attorney General's Office reached agreement on other major aspects of the deal to dissolve the lawsuit.

The charities received an additional $1.8 million from the Trump Foundation, which included about $11,000 Trump repaid the charity for sports memorabilia and champagne it purchased.