As Twitchy predicted, plenty of media outlets were going with the standard “Republicans pounce” angle after some damning information came out of the DOJ Inspector General’s report, including a text from Peter Strzok reassuring Lisa Page that Trump would never become president: “We’ll stop it,” he texted back.

Here again is CNN’s take:

That wasn’t enough for CNN’s Chris Cillizza, who decided to take the “Republicans pounce” ball and run with it.

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So the story isn’t the damning texts showing deep anti-Trump bias within the FBI; the story is how Trump supporters are taking seven words out of a 500-page report as “ammo.” Cillizza’s hot take:

PAGE: “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
STRZOK: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”

Those seven words are what Trump and his allies will seize on — casting them as definitive proof that the “deep state” not only didn’t want him to win but was actively working to keep him from the White House.

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Look, here’s more pouncing:

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