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As Trump congratulated Fox & Friends on its amazing reporting, he was ignoring analysis from his own intelligence officials that theres no evidence such surveillance occurred.
Link to tweet
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Just minutes earlier, Trumps favorite morning show tweeted that a bombshell report over the weekend shows a very high up Obama official unmasking Trump associates for political purposes. Trump often praises the program and tweets about stories its hosts have recently discussed.
Trump has for weeks claimed that former President Barack Obama spied on him. But FBI Director James Comey last month told Congress that there is no information to support the presidents claims. National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers made a similar comment. And James Clapper, who served as director of national intelligence during the time the alleged spying would have occurred, has also denied the reports.
Several members of Congress have called on Trump to retract the allegations, but so far hes only doubled down.
exboyfil
(17,867 posts)that think that individuals of African descent are a different species.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)He can just pick up the phone and call the FBI and get access to all of this information! Citing Fox and Friends is beyond disturbing!
underpants
(183,056 posts)That's what they are still trying to hammer home. She resigned her position in 2015 (to start with) and she told Mika on Morning Joe simply that she'd advised former colleagues to save any info they had because Trump was surely going to try to erase it. That's the most simple explanation. There nothing with this but it's big shakes in RW media. I thought it went away 2+ weeks ago but they are bringing it back up.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)It named a "very high up" as the individual, as analyzed by a Fox contributor.
Trump pushes another Fox News conspiracy theory stating he was spied upon before getting nomination
jmg257
(11,996 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)When anonymous sources say she "requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign" - which is very much tail wagging dog all of a sudden - we need to maintain a rational level of skepticism.
This is a story to fit a story, and for all we know, the ones who made up the original story are sourcing "the story" to back it up!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)This country is in trouble if this isn't stopped.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)and trump is happy about it?
nuts.