In CNN Interview, Pelosi Says 14 Times that FISA Memo Is Entirely False

‘They have crossed from dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence to a cover-up of an investigation’

A clearly rattled Rep. Nancy Pelosi is decrying a Republican vote to release to the American people a memo alleged to show the Obama Justice Department using Clinton opposition research to justify surveilling a member of the Trump campaign.

After earlier warning that releasing the memo would undermine the FBI, Pelosi is now claiming that the memo, which former federal prosecutor Rep. Trey Gowdy, is entirely fake and made up.

"What they’re putting forth is a total misrepresentation," Pelosi said Monday night. "It is false. And they’re putting it out there as if it is factual."

"It’s not even true, it’s not even true," she said. "They have made up a memo that isn’t even true, and they’re lying to the American people."

The memo, she said, is "a false memo based on a false premise." 

She was so emphatic about this point she made it 14 separate times during a single sitting with Chris Cuomo on CNN.

Pelosi called the memo's contents "false" 4 times; "not true" 6 times, "made up" once, a "lie" once and she twice said the report's authors are "lying."

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