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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 11:21 AM Apr 2017

Trump Trusts Fox & Friends Over His Own Intelligence Community

President Donald Trump on Monday touted a “Fox & Friends” report that the previous administration spied on him during the election ― an idea that has been widely debunked.

As Trump congratulated “Fox & Friends” on its “amazing reporting,” he was ignoring analysis from his own intelligence officials that there’s no evidence such surveillance occurred.






Just minutes earlier, Trump’s 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 president’s 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 he’s only doubled down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fox-and-friends_us_58e22eb3e4b0ba3595964399?
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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
9. I can't believe he gets his info. from watching tv
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 12:00 PM
Apr 2017

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)
2. They think they have a winner in the Evelyn Farkas story
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 11:27 AM
Apr 2017

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.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
5. Bloomberg is reporting it too...
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 11:46 AM
Apr 2017
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel

White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
11. Fox News never named Susan Rice who is a remarkably frequent target of 'the right.'
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 12:08 PM
Apr 2017

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)
10. The President of the United States was live tweeting this morning while watching Fox and Friends!
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 12:03 PM
Apr 2017

This country is in trouble if this isn't stopped.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
4. Yup - Susan Rice does her job of unmasking in legally obtained reports re: possible ILLegal behavior
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 11:45 AM
Apr 2017

and trump is happy about it?

nuts.

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