Trump allies see vindication in reports on Manafort wiretapping

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

For some of President Trump’s staunchest allies, reports that former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was under U.S. surveillance are nothing short of vindication of the president’s widely-dismissed claims that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.

Although surveillance experts from both sides of the aisle say the claims mischaracterize reports about the order on Manafort, that hasn’t stopped Trump allies from saying the president was right all along.

Longtime advisor Roger Stone has gleefully circulated a segment from Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News in which the host says “all those patronizing assurances that nobody is spying on political campaigns were false” and “it looks like Trump's tweet may have been right.”

When Trump made his claim in March, it was rejected by members of both parties. The Justice Department later stated that it had no evidence to back them up.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/351994-trump-allies-see-vindication-in-reports-on-manafort

Only Trump and his allies would think getting caught colluding with the Russians amounts to vindication.

[uponit7771]

1. They're making crap up, they understand what wiretapping is

[NanceGreggs]

2. As they say, you can't fix stupid.

Trump claimed Obama wire-tapped him in order to spy on him.

Manafort was wire-tapped pursuant to a FISA warrant.

Only in a RWer's tiny mind are those two things the same.

[bettyellen]

5. Yeah but the "missing emails" the hacked emails were all the same to these rubes too.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Was Manafort living under the bed?

[Trust Buster]

4. The FISA warrant taken out on Manafort occurred AFTER Manafort left the campaign.

Their conspiritorial meme blew up in their faces like everything else.

[sharedvalues]

6. Don't repeat their lies

Better headline : "After legal wiretap supported by evidence Manafort committed a crime, Trump allies try to change the subject"

[Weekend Warrior]

7. They go to Tucker Carlson for a quote? Nt

[comradebillyboy]

8. Right...the fact that Trump surrounded himself with

foreign agents and traitors hardly vindicates him.