the aclu, the united nations, cultural marksist and the so-called deep state, all of whom the memo claims are banding together to delegitimize president trump. quote for this, trump must be destroyed. to me it was a declaration of war on some of the choices for personnel that the president has made. he s this memo s message essentially was hey those that are perhaps generals or those that had been in the process, that s not your brand. that s not who you are. the memo compares trump to abraham lincoln. casting his struggle as a battle for good and evil. in the same way president trump lincoln was surrounded by political opposition, so too is trump. had lincoln failed, so too would
lambists, black lives matter, the aclu, the united nations, cultural marxists and the so-called deep state or permanent government apparatus. all of whom, the memo claims, are banding together to did he legit miez and destroy president trump and prevent him from making america great again. quote, for this ka balance, trump must be destroyed. to me it was really a declaration of war on some of the choices foreperson nel that theel president has made. this memo s message essentially was, hey, those athat are perhaps generals or have been in the process, that s not your brand. that s not who you are. the memo also compares trump to abraham lincoln casting trump s struggle as a battle between good and evil. quote, in the same way president lincoln was surrounded by opposition, in both overt and covert forms, so too is president trump, higgins writes. had lincoln failed, so too would
describes a rogue s gallery of conspirators in and out of government working in concert to subvert and destroy the trump presidency. the memo, alarmingel enough, was written by a member of the strategic planning office named rich hig begins. he was a hold over from the staff of national security advisor mike flynn. this memo calls to find the feertd rant lgz of the john buv society. the memo claims, for instance, that president trump represents a, quote, an exist ten shall threat to the cultural marksist means that dominate the prevailing cultural narrative. among these alleged conspirators are i needed a scroll to do it, marxists, mediaists, islamist, globalists, the media, akd eema, the deep state, the hard left, democrats and republicans. the only thing missing, floor i d. in the end hig begins concludes that the defense of president trump is the defense of america.
conversation. i want to know what you think. go to my website, smerconish.com, right now, and answer this question. which do you think was more politically potent? hash tag release the memo, or the actual nunes memo? i ll tell you the results at the end of the program. now, one reason the devin nunes memo said the steele dossier should be discredited was the accusation that christopher steele leaked his alleged findings to the media, including my next guest. the october 2016 carter page fisa application cited this september 23rd yahoo! news article by michael isikoff focusing on the july 2016 trip to moscow. the nunes memo claims, quote, this article does not corroborate the steele dossier, because it is derived from information leaked by steele himself to yahoo! news. joining me now is michael isikoff, the chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news, coauthor with david corn of the forthcoming book, russian roulette: the inside story of