If there’s a general theme today, it might be that the “48-hour rule” or even “72-hour rule” is sometimes good to follow on breaking news stories. We like to apply this when a story doesn’t smell quite right, if it’s from a dicey source, if it’s just too on-the-nose, if it seems really out of character for someone, or if we just don’t know enough yet.
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Let’s start with the statement made on Monday that it was then-Attorney General Bill Barr and his “hand-picked prosecutor” who ended the FBI’s investigation of a CHS’s allegation concerning then-VP Biden and a $5 million bribe. →