Fox News Slammed by Legal Experts for Saying Trump Was Right About Obama Wiretap

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A few days old, but worth the read.





Fox News Slammed by Legal Experts for Saying Trump Was Right About Obama Wiretap


http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-slammed-legal-experts-trump-right-obama-wiretap-668117?utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=most_read&utm_medium=most_read4


By Graham Lanktree On 9/20/17 at 9:02 AM


Following reports that Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman was under surveillance, Fox News pundits jumped to the president’s defense Tuesday, asserting that his claims the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower have now been vindicated. Yet they couldn’t be more wrong, said legal experts.

It all goes back to Trump’s tweet on March 4 that he “found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump also compared it to “Nixon/Watergate,” when President Richard Nixon attempted to bug the Democratic Party headquarters.

Defending Trump’s months-old claim, Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson said Tuesday: “Not everything the president says on Twitter is factually accurate. But to anyone who has been in Washington for a while, that claim didn't seem crazy or really that unlikely.”



Carlson said CNN’s report that Paul Manafort—who was chairman of Trump’s 2016 election campaign between last June and August—had been under FBI surveillance since 2014 prove that “all those patronizing assurances that nobody is spying on political campaigns were false and probably intentionally so.”.........................

[genxlib]

1. This needs to be turned around

The government wasn't spying on Trump.

Trump brought someone into his campaign that was already under investigation. That's on him to choose better people that aren't under surveillance.

He invited the vampire to cross his threshold. So they can spare me the outrage.

[Vinca]

2. If Trump didn't cavort with criminals he wouldn't be on tape.

[oasis]

3. Foxbots are predisposed to believe every lie told by their idol.

x millions.

[Initech]

4. Fox News logic: whatever a competent person does, do the opposite.

And then spend all of your time and energy convincing everyone that competent person is wrong.

[malaise]

5. Fox is not news

That is all