For the Thursday afternoon’s airing of CNN Newsroom, substitute anchor Pamela Brown hosted a discussion on President Trump’s recent Oval Office interview, in which he stated that he may or may not call the FBI if a foreign entity offered information on a political opponent. In that time, CNN senior Justice correspondent Evan Perez suggested the now-infamous Steele dossier wasn’t foreign interference because it made its way to the FBI. At no point did Perez now it was paid for and intended to be used by the Clinton campaign.

Brown asked Perez about whether or not there were any parallels between the Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting and the Fusion GPS’ Democratically funded Steele Dossier. Perez went on to say that it’s different for Hillary Clinton to receive foreign assistance because the British are allies:

Right, and Christopher Steele was a former spy for British intelligence services. The British government is one of the closest allied governments to the United States and what he was doing – what he did was compiled this dossier, these documents which was provided to the FBI to investigate. They used it as part of their evidence to provide -- to provide to the FISA court, the surveillance court in order to get a warrant on Carter Page. Now, it wasn't the only evidence, but it was part of what the FBI provided and as you said, this is a big difference between, again, a former spy for the British government for the U.K. of intelligence services, one of our closest services, and the Russian government which is an avowed hostile power, wants to damage the U.S. political system.

Perez attempted to portray Steele as a man who just happened upon information regarding Trump, rather than a former spy who was contracted out by Democrats to gather information on Clinton’s political opponents. That was gross negligence in the portrayal of the facts.

Not only was Steele a foreign spy, but he also obtained his information from Russian sources. The media was quick to condemn Trump simply for the rhetoric he used, but completely absolved Clinton of all wrongdoing when her campaign actually engaged in shady activity with a foreign national.

The American Bar Association recognizes that any acceptance of a substance of “value” from a foreign national constitutes a violation of federal election law. In his interview, Trump only suggested that he would be willing to take information from a foreign government. CNN flashed their hypocrisy when they failing to condemn or even acknowledge the Clinton campaign for actually engaging in the same criminal activity that Trump suggested he was interested in.

This is just another instance of the liberal media playing favorites and obscuring facts in-order to continue their crusade against President Trump.

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