A CNN panel unanimously concluded on Thursday that Americans aren’t smart enough to “understand” FBI agent Peter Strzok and why he took many of the actions that he did.

During his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Strzok smugly and arrogantly refused to answer numerous questions from lawmakers about why he sent hundreds of anti-Trump messages, how the Russia investigation actually began, and why Hillary Clinton was never charged despite the bureau admitting she broke the law by compromising classified information with her email server.

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When pressed on these three main issues, Strzok turned around in his chair, secretly spoke with a handful of bureau lawyers, and then claimed he couldn’t answer the questions because he had been “advised by the FBI” not to answer questions about those topics.

A CNN panel hosted by anchor Wolf Blitzer found Strzok’s excuses to be credible, and questioned if Americans were able to understand his answers and why he couldn’t speak about certain things. They were calling Americans too stupid to listen to Strzok and synthesize the nonsense he was spewing.

It began when CNN national security analyst Philip Mudd knocked the intelligence of the American people while Chief political analyst Gloria Borger laughed and piled on:

MUDD: I completely agree with Mr. Strozk on this, Americans don’t understand this. You’re talking about hundreds of people involved in this investigation, regardless of whether you believe him or not, you’re thinking that he can walk into the FBI Hoover Building [BORGER LAUGHS] and say: ‘Let me figure out a way to manipulate another 200 people.’ It’s impossible. BORGER: But if he was so biased, why didn’t he leak it? I mean, if he really wanted Trump to lose, he had the car. He could have leaked it and said there’s the counter intelligence investigation going on about Donald Trump and Russia.

CNN analyst Susan Hennessey, after laughing at Mudd’s comment with appoval, said Strzok offered “the most robust defense of the FBI that we’ve heard from a sitting FBI official and so I think that was really remarkable” in schooling Republicans.

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Strzok served as the No. 2 counterintelligence analyst at the FBI before being demoted last year and fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team after an internal probe found that he had sent hundreds of anti-Trump text messages to Lisa Page, a former lawyer at the FBI lawyer with whom he was having an affair.

Page resigned from her position in May amid a flurry of controversies and Strzok has been demoted to the human resources office.

CNN failed to mention that part, or that he cheated on his wife with the same colleague that he was exchanging hundreds of messages with which slandered President Trump.

Only CNN would claim Americans aren’t smart enough to understand Strzok’s testimony, say Republicans did Russia’s bidding during the hearing, and then commended the FBI agents for how he handled himself during the hearing.

This is why is why so many loathe the fake news network.

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