Trump's Russia Gate Skeptics - The Time Story

In 2017, it seemed like Trump had something to hide and fair-minded observers in the press, who lacked the information that the FBI had at the time. We didn't find out until 2020 that Peter Strach, who was the senior FBI official who opened the investigation into Trump's campaign, had prepared a detailed memo shredding that time story to ribbons after the piece came out. He noted in the memo that the press was destroying its credibility. Why was the FBI privately assuring president Trump that the time story was false? He was not a target of the investigation and then publicly offered no comment. One might say that this was the bureau trying to restore a norm it had violated during