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What do we know about the ‘FBI informant’ Trump keeps talking about?
The underlying premise of all of this is absurd to begin with. Republicans are trying to argue that the fact that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign during 2016 is evidence that it was out to get him. But that could only be true if you start from the presumption that everything the FBI does is out of bad faith, and that even way back then the bureau was trying to destroy Trump.
But if you don’t assume the FBI was acting in bad faith, then you have to conclude that whatever it learned in 2016 was so disturbing that it decided to open an investigation into a presidential campaign’s ties to a hostile foreign government, an extraordinary step to take. In striking contrast to the way then-director James Comey treated Hillary Clinton, they were incredibly scrupulous about making sure that news of their investigation was not revealed publicly so as not to damage Trump’s campaign.
We don’t know how the showdown over this informant is going to end. But one way or another, whether his or her identity is revealed or not, we’re going to learn what that person learned about the Trump campaign. And if Trump and his defenders thought there was nothing damaging to be revealed, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to preemptively discredit this informant, in the same way they’re doing to the whole investigation.
In other words, just as they have been all along, they’re acting as though Trump and others around him are guilty as sin. I wonder why?