‘Bombshell’ Text Messages Don’t Show Conspiracy

Text messages from 2016 show preparation to brief President Obama about Russia’s interference in that year’s election, not, as Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested, meddling by the then-president in the federal Hillary Clinton email investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Republicans and the president himself have cited the messages as evidence that the Russian probe amounts to a wider plot to undermine him.”

Earlier, Trump had tweeted: “New FBI texts are bombshells!”