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In reply to the discussion: Trump has a new harebrained scheme to defeat Biden, and it's his dumbest yet [View all]Marcuse
(9,086 posts)25. This is not a NEW hare brained scheme. It's an old rerun, including the "unmaskings".
[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-surveillance-idUSKCN1BD0UO
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Justice Department affirms no evidence Obama wiretapped Trump The surveillance claim, which first appeared in conservative media before being picked up by Trump, prompted a rare rebuke by Obama, who responded at the time through a spokesman to denounce the idea that he had ordered surveillance against then-candidate Trump as "simply false."
In a statement, American Oversight said the Justice Department filing "confirmed in writing that President Trump lied when he tweeted that former President Obama 'wiretapped' him at Trump Tower."
Asked for comment, a White House spokeswoman said on Saturday, "This is not news. We answered this weeks ago."Despite the lack of evidence, the White House for several weeks attempted to bolster the baseless claim, and it helped fuel an also unsubstantiated inquiry by Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee, into whether the Obama administration improperly "unmasked" surveillance intercepts of phone conversations Trump associates had with foreigners.
Justice Department affirms no evidence Obama wiretapped Trump The surveillance claim, which first appeared in conservative media before being picked up by Trump, prompted a rare rebuke by Obama, who responded at the time through a spokesman to denounce the idea that he had ordered surveillance against then-candidate Trump as "simply false."
In a statement, American Oversight said the Justice Department filing "confirmed in writing that President Trump lied when he tweeted that former President Obama 'wiretapped' him at Trump Tower."
Asked for comment, a White House spokeswoman said on Saturday, "This is not news. We answered this weeks ago."Despite the lack of evidence, the White House for several weeks attempted to bolster the baseless claim, and it helped fuel an also unsubstantiated inquiry by Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee, into whether the Obama administration improperly "unmasked" surveillance intercepts of phone conversations Trump associates had with foreigners.
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Trump has a new harebrained scheme to defeat Biden, and it's his dumbest yet [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
May 2020
OP
Are you kidding? That lying creep? Think of all the blood on his hands, from MyLai to Iraq.
niyad
May 2020
#26
Wow, what a fantastic article. DEFINITELY worth reading the entire thing.
CaliforniaPeggy
May 2020
#4
Reeks of desperation. It will fail like all of his harebrained schemes do. And if anything, will
SWBTATTReg
May 2020
#5
I WISH : I WAS A SUPER-HERO w/ a Time Travel machine. I'd go baci to year 2000 & bomb Faux Network
trueblue2007
May 2020
#16
Republicans from the day after President Obama was elected plotted to defeat him.
Caliman73
May 2020
#11
I guess he thinks Obama is going to be scared of him like all the republicans are?
BComplex
May 2020
#12
If Obama charged him for the space Obama lives in (his pea brained mind) rent free
MagickMuffin
May 2020
#23
This is not a NEW hare brained scheme. It's an old rerun, including the "unmaskings".
Marcuse
May 2020
#25
I believe that by attacking Obama, Trump is motivating African Americans to vote against him.
CaptainTruth
May 2020
#29