Ron Johnson Goes Conspiracist Route Defending Trump, Attacks Intel Community

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When Senator Johnson was asked if he trusted the CIA and FBI, he said: “No, no I don’t, absolutely not. After Peter Strzok and Lisa Page?”

Photo: NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Usually the Trump administration welcomes Sunday-circuit opportunities to defend or distract from the president’s meltdown of the week, but with the White House in crisis in the midst of the rapidly developing scandal in Ukraine, no one from the administration appeared on CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS or NBC on October 6.

Giuliani also went a familiar route, bringing out visual aids to bolster his yelling. Two weeks ago, he was reading his texts from an iPad; on Sunday, he printed out papers he said were “three affidavits from Ukrainian prosecutors,” though NBC News reporter Ben Collins notes that they were just blog print-outs.

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