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Trump Lies About ‘Deleted’ FBI Text Messges

December 30, 2018 at 1:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As President Trump raged against ‘angry Democrats’ in a tweet Saturday, he repeated a lie that 19,000 FBI texts had been deliberately deleted and were missing,” the HuffPost reports.

“More than 20,000 FBI agent texts lost in a technological glitch were recovered, which was clearly stated in a report early this month by the Office of the Inspector General in Trump’s own Justice Department.”

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