Obama Bro Jon Favreau got into a spat with Maria Bartiromo over Bartiromo’s questioning of “an abuse of power at the top of the FBI,” but the WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel was having none of that and absolutley leveled Favreau over his comments.
First up, here’s the bro vs the B-romo:
Add @MariaBartiromo to the long list of Trump fanatics who no longer deserve the title of journalist. https://t.co/GyFtd76KSt
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 21, 2018
Bartiromo fired back:
Try reading & paying attention. This is not about trump. This is about the rule of law & an abuse of power at the top of the FBI. It's pretty clear what took place. Your ideologies are blindfolding you.
— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) May 21, 2018
Which then led to this response, which is what Strassel actually responded to:
Without any evidence whatsoever, you went on air and leveled criminal accusations at the former president, Secretary of State, and Republican FBI Director. You have absolutely no idea what took place because you don’t do reporting anymore. You parrot conspiracies on state TV. https://t.co/2rmPX4nM7o
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 21, 2018
Strassel responded with a call to “embrace transparency” and a reminder that the “Founders rightly believed the public would/should be skeptical of power, and gave tools (checks/balances) to bring to light”:
Says a biased observer, who only critiques the questioning press. And if there remains lack of details, it is because those involved spend every minute working to hide the facts. If nobody did anything wrong, embrace transparency. Otherwise, the public can assume . . . https://t.co/DgTAx9B9hI
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) May 22, 2018
1) The fallacy here–stated by Sally Yates–is that the "investigators" are beyond reproach. The Founders rightly believed the public would/should be skeptical of power, and gave tools (checks/balances) to bring to light. https://t.co/DgTAx9B9hI
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) May 22, 2018
2) The notion that the most powerful people in the land–law enforcement and intelligence services–should never be questioned, that their version should be accepted as fact, is antithetical to our system.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) May 22, 2018
3) And especially knowing the facts we do–FISA warrants, spies/informants, dossiers paid for by a rival campaign–we should absolutely ask the investigators questions. The notion that the White House can't do this, because it was the target of said investigators, is nonsense.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) May 22, 2018
4) The cleanest way out of this is for the WH to declassify everything. The DOJ/FBI/Intelligence community has forfeited its arguments about classification, given its willingness to blow a source so that it could spin a story. Let the chips fall.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) May 22, 2018
And before you say anything about “transparency” and Trump’s returns, Strassel is way ahead of you:
You want to “embrace transparency “? Well, embrace this: have Trump release his tax returns. What’s he hiding? https://t.co/98WZmJzGUc
— Bryan Smith (@bryrsmith) May 22, 2018
I'm all in for that, too. https://t.co/c9ZUF7T0wx
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) May 22, 2018
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WOW: Kimberley Strassel's thread on NYT 'Hurricane Crossfire' piece incredibly DAMNING for Obama DOJ/FBI https://t.co/QS5uaJEGax
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 17, 2018
Kimberley Strassel has MORE than a few questions ABC News should have asked Jim Comey https://t.co/ETU6yeIUz9
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 16, 2018