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….Today he admitted that his huge, explosive #TheMemo — which alleged that the FBI concealed the political origins of a dossier — got one fairly significant fact wrong: namely, that detail had not been concealed, but rather had been disclosed:
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The correction will get nowhere near as much attention as the original smear, of course. On Twitter, this sort of thing happens so often that it’s a meme of sorts: Original falsehood: 10,000 retweets. Correction: 27 retweets.
Still, the facts are the facts. And now the Trumpian defense will move to arguments like “it wasn’t disclosed enough” and other partisan arguments — all of which rely on the very same #TheMemo that totally and completely misstated this fact to begin with.
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Well, Well, Well: Nunes Admits the Partisan Origins of the Dossier *Had* Been Disclosed After All https://t.co/kKWIRc6yJ0
— RedState (@RedState) February 6, 2018
As I keep saying: none of this matters, since the heavy lifting was done by the narrative prior to release. The sucker demo isn't going to read up on anything else now. https://t.co/lDaRC4Mq3u
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 6, 2018
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