This afternoon, CNN reported that embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok — a man who has been made out as an anti-Trump Deep State bogeyman by the president’s loyalists — actually co-authored then-FBI Director James Comey’s letter announcing the FBI was investigating new Clinton-related emails days before the 2016 presidential election.
Considering that many feel that letter upended the election and may have led to Hillary Clinton’s loss, this new report seems to put a chink in the narrative that Strzok was behind a conspiracy to take down Donald Trump from within the FBI. Following CNN reporting this story on the air, anchor Jake Tapper turned to partisan pundits and CNN political commentators David Urban and Paul Begala for their takes. And, as you could imagine, they ended up getting into it a bit.
Right away, Urban acknowledged that this news “complicates the picture,” but wanted everyone to know that he didn’t believe the narrative that the Comey letter helped Trump and hurt Clinton.
“I can tell you the president was on his way to winning,” the former Trump adviser noted. “The momentum was surging in our favor long before this happened.”
The Clinton-supporting Begala vehemently disagreed, pointing to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight that indicated the Comey letter indeed impacted the race and could have tilted it at the end for Trump.
“Hillary Clinton would have won comfortably but for Jim Comey intervening,” Begala exclaimed.
“Feelings aren’t facts, Paul,” Urban responded.
Even though Tapper jumped in to say that they weren’t going to settle that issue, Urban and Begala kept going back and forth over the Comey letter and whether or not it swung the election for Trump. With Begala continually pointing to the letter — as well as Russian interference — Urban kept shooting back that it was Clinton’s dismissal of middle American values that ruined her chances.
Watch the clip above, via CNN.
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