Trump Desperately Wants You to Believe 'Spygate' Is Real

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Just a few days after a weekend Twitter meltdown that featured a call for the Department of Justice to investigate whether the FBI "infiltrated" his campaign for political purposes, President Trump on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning fired off another torrent of tweets about the same subject. He even decided on a nickname for what he is desperately trying to position as a historic scandal.

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Since the New York Times reported last week that the FBI used an "informant" while investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia prior to the 2016 election, the president has used increasingly superlative language in denouncing what amounts to standard operating procedure for the Justice Department. Last week, he tweeted that it could be "bigger than Watergate!" Then it was the "all time biggest political scandal!" While fielding questions from reporters Tuesday afternoon, he said "it would make probably every political event ever look like small potatoes."

Link to tweet

It’s important to remember that none of this has any grounding in reality.

Several of key figures in Trump’s campaign had ties to Russia, and the FBI was provided with information that the campaign knew Russia was working to interfere in the election, leading them to investigate. Nothing about the FBI's use of an "informant" – who was not a "SPY" – constitutes overreach, and it was certainly not illegal. There is no evidence the investigation was in any way politically motivated, and the "reports" cited by Trump are nothing more than bad-faith speculation from Fox News personalities. Nearly two years after the FBI began the "phony" investigation, over 20 individuals and businesses have been indicted, multiple key members of Trump's campaign have pled guilty and information suggesting criminality within Trump's campaign continues to emerge.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/what-does-spygate-mean-w520669?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=052318_11

[thewhollytoast]

1. Sure, "Spygate" is real, Bullleeve me.

But, the shit is on his side of the fence.

Toast

[dchill]

2. In other words, when it comes to Trump, the FBI...

the entire DOJ... needs to stop doing it's job. It's a scandal the likes of which we've never seen!

[Kirk Lover]

3. May we please have a COHERENT conspiracy theory to grasp onto...for once RUMP? nt

[thewhollytoast]

4. It was Cadet Bone Spurs in the bedroom with a can of chick-peas.

[Kirk Lover]

5. Make it a diet coke instead of chick peas and I can run with it.

[thewhollytoast]

6. Regardless of the method after this whole mess is over with....

....we are all going to need a big jug of brain bleach.

T

[Docreed2003]

7. I heard it was with a bucket of kfc drumsticks

[oberliner]

8. It's already been made "real" by all the news channels repeating it over and over

Mission accomplished.

[Javaman]

9. and it just comes off as desperate.

I think even the halfwit orange asshole supporters feel this as well, but are at pains to admit it.

[kentuck]

10. It's a tactic of division.

Because he knows his supporters will believe anything he tells them.

[Skidmore]

11. "Spygate" is part of Trump's Liegate.

Adam Schiff called Trump's relentless manufacturing of alternate reality Liegate today on Morning Joe. Term needs to be applied to this marketing ploy by Trump and that ploy needs to be added to the long list of others he has told. Use it. #Liegate

[thewhollytoast]

12. Invisible fist bump

I don't know how old you are, but I think that both of us know what a timely turd Trump is. I expect we will see his hands start to shake. Just like Hitler.

Toast