by Outcast_Searcher » Tue 22 May 2018, 13:26:44
Once again, I'm not taking sides because instead of speculating, I'd like to see the facts come out. However, as I've said, there are two sides to this story. As I predicted, the dems and at least part of the MSM are calling much of this nonsense.
Plant seems to be taking Trump's side in this.
So for some balance:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/ ... nds-602723$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
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Clapper: FBI was not spying on TrumpFormer Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday that the FBI was not at any point spying on the Trump campaign.
“They were not. They were spying — a term I don't particularly like — on what the Russians were doing," Clapper said during an appearance on The View to promote his new book, “Facts and Fears: Hard Truths From A Life In Intelligence.”
The FBI, Clapper said, was simply trying to answer the question, "Were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to gain leverage and influence?"
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/ ... -thank-fbi$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')We all know it’s too much to ask, but don’t you think we’d all breathe a lot easier if President Trump would only check the facts before he makes a wild assertion? Except he never has and never will.
There are by now a long string of outrageous claims he’s made that have no basis in reality. Former President Obama tapped his phones at Trump Tower? He didn’t. Five million people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton? They didn’t. The crowd at his inaugural was the largest ever? It wasn’t. He won more electoral votes (304) than any president since Ronald Reagan? No, he didn’t. Obama won 365 in 2008 and 332 in 2012.
To that list we can now add one of his biggest and most unsubstantiated whoppers of all. Trump tweeted early in the morning of May 18: “Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president.” And lest there be any doubt what he meant by “representative,” he followed up with: “Apparently the [Department of Justice] put a Spy in the Trump Campaign.”
So what we are to make of this? Absolutely nothing. It’s simply not true, just the latest twist in repeated efforts by the Trump White House to undermine the credibility of special counsel Robert Mueller in anticipation of a damning final report. Their working premise is that if they call it a “witch hunt” often enough, people will start to believe it.
Aside from questionable sources and opinion pieces, or references about having the DOJ look into it, I'm still not finding much in the way of the basic facts on this.
If several major MSM sources report that this spying thing is actually true, THEN this will certainly be a serious story, vs. speculation.