MSNBC host and self-appointed referee of American politics, Chuck Todd was visibly irritated Wednesday evening after Attorney General William Barr admitted before Congress that the Trump campaign was spied on in 2016, and he planned to investigate it. Suggesting Barr was “perpetuating” a “fact-less conspiracy theory,” Todd denied known facts of the case and spun a series of falsehoods while declaring Barr had “gaslit the country.”

“Using the word ‘spying’ plays into the President's language and argument that the Russia investigation, to him, is just a witch hunt,” Todd proclaimed after the media, for two years, promised us that collusion was real. “And every time they've brought up this allegation, there has been zero factual basis for it.”

Except, there was a factual basis for it. As the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross noted in his report about Barr's comments:

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have dubbed the counterintelligence probe ‘Spygate,’ especially regarding the FBI’s use of an informant named Stefan Halper. Halper, a former Cambridge professor, made contact with at least three Trump campaign advisers, Carter Page, Sam Clovis and George Papadopoulos.

Ross is regarded as a knowledgeable voice on the origins of the Trump-Russia probe since he has investigated it for years.

Todd went on to bitterly denounce Barr’s testimony: “Barr even said later in the hearing that he has no specific evidence about wrongdoing at the Justice Department. But you don't get to put the toothpaste back into the tube now, do you?” Again, the liberal media spent two years suggesting Trump was a Russian asset without a single shred of evidence.

When it came time to commiserate with his guests, Todd first went to former U.S. Attorney Greg Brower, who suggested Barr “confirmed the worst fears of his critics, which is that he’s playing politics with this, and he‘s out to appease an audience of one.” Todd agreed in addressing Washington Post White House correspondent Anne Gearan: “Barr has put himself in a position where he's now a political actor in the eyes of every Democrat and perhaps some Republicans.”

Todd was also angry that Trump supporters were getting the investigation they wanted and suggested they bought into a “bizarre conspiracy theory of theirs that somehow Hillary Clinton worked with the Russians to create this conspiracy.” Reality check: we’ve known from the beginning that the Clinton campaign paid former British spy Christopher Steele to get dirt on then-candidate Trump, and he got information from Russia sources.

In a strange lamenting to Brower a few minutes later, Todd basically made the argument for why the FBI needed to take action or spy against the Trump campaign:

Greg, what was the FBI supposed to do when you have active multiple attempts of Russians clearly trying to infiltrate the Trump campaign? Pure and simple. That is -- we are debating when the Trump campaign knew what was going on. It is indisputable the number of attempts they made to infiltrate that campaign?

Todd was completely divorced from reality.

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