Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Okay as of right now most news outlets have no freaking idea what Trump is talking about here.How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Now it is possible that somebody brought an article written by our friend Louise Mensch back in November to Trump's attention.
Here is the article:
Two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community have confirmed to Heat Street that the FBI sought, and was granted, a FISA court warrant in October, giving counter-intelligence permission to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Trump’s campaign with ties to Russia.
Contrary to earlier reporting in the New York Times, which cited FBI sources as saying that the agency did not believe that the private server in Donald Trump’s Trump Tower which was connected to a Russian bank had any nefarious purpose, the FBI’s counter-intelligence arm, sources say, re-drew an earlier FISA court request around possible financial and banking offenses related to the server. The first request, which, sources say, named Trump, was denied back in June, but the second was drawn more narrowly and was granted in October after evidence was presented of a server, possibly related to the Trump campaign, and its alleged links to two banks; SVB Bank and Russia’s Alfa Bank. While the Times story speaks of metadata, sources suggest that a FISA warrant was granted to look at the full content of emails and other related documents that may concern US persons.
As you can see this talks about a FISA court request from the FBI concerning one particular server.
The fact that they would have needed a warrant of course means that this is NOT, in any way, like what Nixon did during his administration, nor does it necessarily suggest that the FBI was allowed to tap Trump's phones.
What DO know is that American intelligence agencies WERE tracking the phone calls coming in and out of Russia and that THAT was how they found out that a number of Trump's campaign staff and administration staff had been in contact with certain unsavory folks connected to the Russian government.
Apparently Trump's current freakout is linked to Mark Levin's radio show where he cited these articles and then exaggerated what they said to suggest that the Obama Administration used "police state" tactics to undermine the Trump campaign.
Remember Trump only trusts Right Wing news outlets and talk shows that make shit up, or exaggerate facts to fit their agenda.Was Obama using NSA against Trump campaign? https://t.co/xzAOf11y3k— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) March 3, 2017
I think Trump has really rounded the bend on this one.
Narcissist
ReplyDeleteMisogynist
Sexual Predator
Incestuous feelings towards daughter
And now,
Paranoid schizophrenic
Bring it on. Let the boil burst, Trump, you'll feel better.
DeleteBut, his followers who believe every word he speaks will lap this up. Eeeww.
I have to wonder if the nannies trying to keep Trump from tweeting have decided to let him sink himself -- f**k him. Get themselves out of it while they can.
DeleteIt’s unclear whether Trump had any proof to substantiate the allegations or if he was referencing a classified briefing. However, some media outlets have suggested he sourced the information from an article that the far-right website Breitbart News ran Friday, claiming that Obama “sought, and eventually obtained, authorisation to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign.” Steve Bannon left his position as Breitbart executive chairman to become the CEO of Trump’s campaign. Bannon is now the White House chief strategist.
ReplyDelete1/ The wiretaps that Donald Trump "just found out" about have been reported for weeks. I'm going to summarize here some of the discussion.
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/838010340579426304
Other media commentators were keen to point out that the alleged wire taps that Trump “just found out” about had actually been reported on “for weeks.” The Guardian had reported in January how the FBI had applied for a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Trump associates in the summer, but was rejected.
The Trump Foundation gave $10,000 to conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, which works closely with Breitbart and is an unofficial arm of the Trump campaign. Ironically, Project Veritas did actually attempt to infiltrate the campaign of rival candidate Hillary Clinton. It successfully infiltrated outside groups aligned with it, secretly recording and then publishing internal campaign details, which Trump used repeatedly on the stump.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-twitter-barack-obama-tapped_us_58baadf7e4b0b9989417e736?lr425k3tw7v509t3xr&&
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October
ReplyDeleteDon the Con, before you get a lawyer to sue President Obama, weren't you supposed to get a lawyer to sue all the women who falsely accused you of sexually assaulting them?
And, what happened to the 13 year old who says you raped her? Where is she? Threatened again?
DeleteOMG, the so-called "President of the United States" is certifiably insane, not to mention a traitor. The whole GOP is complicit in the treason, it is so obvious they are in a panic in the Congress and desperate to block any independent investigation. The election was a complete criminal fraud, a GOP coup d'etat, aided and abetted by Vladimir Putin and his cyber-hacking intel. The American people demand justice - and a new election!
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that Lorne Michaels went to bed last night happy with the SNL script for tonight then he woke up this morning, saw the news and screamed REWRITE!
DeletePutin must be leaning on him to lift the sanctions. And the CIA is getting closer & closer to the smoking gun. Trumpbannon is feeling the squeeze.
ReplyDeleteShall we take bets on the date Trump has a full-blown psychotic episode for the WH leakers to post?
DeleteSomebody is running scared now. He is projecting like the Tasmanian Devil......Trump is enemy of the State. Would the few adults remaining in Washington please set up an independent commission and get to the bottom of all this traitorous collusive activity with Russia.
ReplyDeleteDEFLECTION is the name of the game for 45. He is a master at this because his other skill is lying. These are the ONLY things he has mastered in his lifetime and what makes him such a good conman. I'm assuming this is because those "skills" allow him to escape responsibility for anything and everything he has done his entire life. Anybody who can claim a $900 million loss on his taxes then go on to declare bankruptcy multiple times while paying ZERO taxes after that and still call himself a "successful businessman" is nothing more than a petty little ignorant man who knows how to manipulate desperate people.
ReplyDeleteBut America was told this, repeatedly, and it just didn't matter. So disheartening.
Delete+++++++
DeleteDrumpf’s Obama obsession
DeleteThe president finds his predecessor to be a convenient foil as he wades through persistent controversy.
Donald Drumpf just can't quit Barack Obama.
From entering politics as the chief promoter of the birtherism conspiracy—complete with claims of mysterious calls coming in to him with new information to detectives he claimed he sent to Hawaii but were never heard from again—to waking up Saturday morning tweeting, “How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones,” Obama’s always there.
There’s a political advantage to it—Obama is just as infuriating a figure as he was six weeks ago to the Republican base and the pro-Drumpf media that powered the president’s campaign.
And there’s a diversionary advantage to churning up a new controversy that this time takes away airtime and mindshare from the questions of just how many top administration officials had just how many undisclosed meetings with Russian officials. But there also seems to be a true sense in Drumpf’s mind that Obama is practically sitting beneath the floorboards of the West Wing, chipping away at his presidency.
So much for Drumpf trying to make them out as buddies.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obama-obsession-235681
"Anybody who can claim a $900 million loss on his taxes then go on to declare bankruptcy multiple times while paying ZERO taxes after that and still call himself a "successful businessman" is nothing more than a petty little ignorant man" >
DeleteTAX EVADER CRIMINAL.
$how USa your TAXE$.
bankruptcy multiple times=Not so lucky...7
DeleteThis is standard operating procedure for Trump. Make an outlandish, untrue claim and while the press or public express their focus and outrage on this particular subject...they will overlook another actually nefarious piece of legislation or private sector move that deserves the outrage and attention. He is a skilled manipulator via his team.
ReplyDeleteObama wire tapped Trump Tower just like he took away all our guns and enforced sharia law.
ReplyDeleteBwaha... snort.
DeleteHi Comrade!
DeleteThis is a pathetically transparent attempt to distract attention from his #Russiagate scandal. You gotta hand it to the guy, he's very clever at coming up with these kinds of distractions. Just like all his other outlandish claims (millions of illegal voters, etc.) I'll treat this as a lie until he actually presents evidence. He says he "just found out". How did he find out? Who told him? What evidence does he have? And, while we're at it, release your taxes!
ReplyDeleteHey, Trumpster...it's called a FISA warrant. If you knew anything about anything, you'd know that, and you'd know why. You have every cause to be nervous. Your money laundering days are numbered, and you will "die in jail" (words if the intel community.) Were I the Trumpster, I'd start packing.
ReplyDeleteYep, when he said Russia are you listening!!!
DeleteObama and the powers that be had an obligation to monitor agent orange!!
Dumb Trump brought this on himself..
And now it's everyone else's fault
big f-in baby!
And another pussy grabber scientologist goes down. LAPD investigating the 70's show dude, Danny Masterson for sexual assault. Trumps silent majority have a pussy problem and bamboozled life belonging to a money grubbing pussy grabbing cult. Time to end this mess tom crusie
ReplyDeleteLast night an Atlantic reporter on Chris Hays mentioned that the RNC changed its official platform on Russia and Ukraine at the request of the Trump campaign and the hack occurred days after that convention where Russian ambassador met with Trump people. Quid quo pro?
ReplyDeleteIf this is true, why isn't he urging the intelligence community to release their findings in order to clear the air?
ReplyDeleteHe just pretty much admitted that he was being monitored by our security agencies before the election. Whether that would be because it is a routine practice for that to be done to any presidential candidates with realistic prospects of winning, or because he was colluding with Russia, at the end of the day, didn't he just reveal the existence of national security procedures which are likely classified?
ReplyDeleteThis is how it REALLY happened.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/838010340579426304
Interesting......
Deletehttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap
He probably just got a call from a reporter verifying a story that's about to come out and is shitting his pants.
ReplyDeleteVeteran newsman Carl Bernstein was floored by Anderson Cooper’s interview with Donald Trump’s former foreign policy advisor Carter Page.
ReplyDelete“One, I thought it was an excruciating interview to watch,” Bernstein said. “He looked like a deer caught in headlights. What I came away with is here is someone who may have been used by the Russians and may have been used by the Trump campaign and perhaps rather cruelly in both instances. I don’t know.”
Bernstein said that one thing he absolutely believes is that there is a cover-up. But let’s cut to the chase here. There’s a cover-up going on. We can’t tell yet what the cover up from the Trump administration and from Mr. Flynn and Mr. Sessions, who have lied is about. But there is a cover-up going on. People are trying to keep us and investigators from knowing what all of these goings-on are about, people around Donald Trump and Russians, Russian nationals, ethno-Russians, and the campaign. That’s what all of this about.”
He continued that he doesn’t know what it will lead to but knows that Trump and those around him, including Sessions, don’t want us to know what the truth is.
The panel universally agreed that the interview was painful and embarrassing.
Watch their discussion below:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/carl-bernstein-mocks-excruciating-carter-page-interview-he-was-a-deer-caught-in-headlights/
Watch the brutal interview below:
Part 1:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/anderson-cooper-torches-carter-page-in-embarrassing-interview-on-russia-and-his-role-with-trump/
It is about $EXxx, BULLying, MonEy$$$!
DeleteIn Line to get it!
Presently taking bets on: who will cut a deal to spill all first, who will commit suicide rather than die in prison for treason, and who will be next to be murdered by the Russians..
ReplyDelete‘Outright personality breakdown in public view’: Internet blasts Trump for ‘tapped phones’ Twitter meltdown
ReplyDeletePresident Donald Trump’s explosive series of tweets Saturday morning, accusing ex-President Barack Obama of having the phones at Trump Tower “tapped” prior to the election, had Twitter abuzz with concerns about his state of mind — among other things.
Early Saturday morning Trump made the startling accusations, possibly after being alerted to a Breitbart article suggesting former President Obama was conducting a “silent coup” against his administration.
Trump went on to state, “I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” leading many to assert that Trump has now opened the door to a complete investigation into his administration’s pre-election involvement with the Russians.
Others suggested that Trump is collapsing into paranoia in public view, with some also pointing out that that media claims that Trump’s speech where he “pivoted” to being more “presidential” are once again moot.
A few responses below:
'He's talking about a FISA warrant. Which was authorized by the FISC. Which is the legal process set up by Congress.'
'So basically Trump is confirming that a federal judge ruled there was enough evidence to proceed with "tapp" of Trump Tower. '
@realDonaldTrump Please stop lying. The intelligence community (not Obama) got LEGAL permission because of your traitorous links with Russia
https://twitter.com/jackschofield/status/838005828682670080
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/outright-personality-breakdown-in-public-view-internet-blasts-trump-for-tapped-phones-twitter-meltdown/
And So, its a beautiful day in the neighbor kids. Exposing LIARS, CULTS, CONS, AND SCIENTOLOGY. Tony Ortega.org. Great reading for REAL journalist and like minded seeking truth and justice. The great web of deceit rigged election's all over the world. And stump fingers is in audit but tweeting. Gee how very smarty the pussy grabbers and liars are. Trump's People.
ReplyDelete'Tapp' as in App?
ReplyDeleteYea, but he is one of the smartest people he knows that can't spell.
DeleteDonald Trump was bailed out of bankruptcy by Russia crime bosses
ReplyDelete...
Among the powerful facts that DNI missed were a series of very deep studies published in the [Financial Times] that examined the structure and history of several major Trump real estate projects from the last decade—the period after his seventh bankruptcy and the cancellation of all his bank lines of credit. ...
The money to build these projects flowed almost entirely from Russian sources. In other words, after his business crashed, Trump was floated and made to appear to operate a successful business enterprise through the infusion of hundreds in millions of cash from dark Russian sources.
He was their man.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/9/1618540/-Was-Donald-Trump-bailed-out-of-bankruptcy-by-Russia-crime-bosses
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1vHUNPXUAEKZWP.jpg
Pooty is the riches boy criminal in the world. lots of money to loan don. too bad he wont be able to recoup it now.
DeleteLittle does trump know the entire world is monitoring him and associates. Even the shit in the gold bidet. Got camaras on that fat lying ass. Don's John's too.
ReplyDeleteRussia: The problem Trump can't escape
ReplyDeleteHere's a rundown of the latest Russia issues dogging the Trump administration.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/trump-russia-issues/index.html
"We All Knew About the Trafficking"-The Untold Story of Trump Model Management (Part 1)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1
The Trump wiretap story is more important than you realize
ReplyDelete...But here’s the thing: not even the President of the United States can do that. You need a court order to tap phones.
If Trump’s phone was tapped (and I’m quite sure it was, because Trump said so, and he never lies), then there must have been a court order. And that court order must have been based on a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. And it happened in October.
So, what reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing might have been raised in October, regarding Trump? You guessed it: Russian hacking of the election. Which in turn implies that the warrant was issued by the super-secret FISA court (well-known to almost never refuse a warrant request.)
And that means that the either the FBI, or more likely the CIA, knows a lot about what was really going on.
And Trump knows they know, because this morning, he was briefed.
And hoo-boy. The Trumpster is running scared.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/4/1640085/-The-Trump-wiretap-story-is-more-important-that-you-realize
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1640085/65712971#comment_65712971
ReplyDeleteThe #FISA warrant for Trump’s secret, Russia-connected server was reported on election morning on Democratic Underground and hackers took down the site hours later:
FBI has FISA warrant for Trump secret server connected to Russia.
Oh sweet irony! Trump's secret email server connected to Russia is the subject of an FBI investigation. Trump's secret server was found during the investigation of the hacking of DNC computers from a server in Russia. The warrant will allow reading the secret emails.
http://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisa-warrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/
So, Comey knew this when he sent his letter. Were Republicans trying to preempt the FISA warrant leaking? ….
This is old news to those in the know, so Trump’s tweet storm begins with another Big Fat Lie that he just found out. NY Times sat on the #FISA warrant story before the election, just like they did the Bush illegal spying story before his reelection.
It was mentioned when he fired the acting AG Sally Yates, that it might impeded the investigations because the DOJ has to sign off on FISA warrants.
DeleteDonald Trump Listened In On Phone Lines At Mar-A-Lago
ReplyDeleteTrump had a phone console near his bed that could connect to every phone in the estate, and several former workers said Trump used it to secretly listen in on phone calls
https://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/sources-donald-trump-listened-in-on-phone-lines-at-mar-a-lag?utm_term=.txavMBw50#.obyOE0n4z
WHATEVER Trump says, it always turns out to be, sooner or later, a projection of what he does or has done.
DeleteIt is so simple to read him.
If Americans don't fight/resist/dump Trump, America doesn't deserve democracy.
Signed, America Watcher.
"Oh hey, do you remember that weird story about the servers pinging back and forth from Trump Tower to Russia’s Alfa Bank?"
DeleteRead more at https://wonkette.com/613824/is-obamas-wire-tapp-the-end-of-donald-trump-maybe-a-holy-shit-yall-investigation-into-wtf#VqEpPqduuEvJMKSx.99
Yup 9:29 - Trump projects all, but unlike most narcissistic sociopaths, Trump is exceptionally simple-minded. He seems to have the comprehension of a developmentally delayed 6 year old and the temperament of a mentally disturbed 3 year old.
DeleteWiretaps Donald Trump "just found out" about have been reported for weeks
ReplyDeletehttp://www.democraticunderground.com/10028744159
'I think Trump has really rounded the bend on this one.'
ReplyDelete-He went past the bend AGES ago, IMHO. The question is, is this the straw that (finally) breaks the camel's back? What is it gonna take? He's flipped the bird to the IC so many times, and THIS is gonna fire up the REAL crazies of his base! I hope Mr. Obama is very, very well protected!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6FgcouU4AAm268.jpg
ReplyDelete:-)
DeleteTrump is such a liar and whiner. What a dolt! The sooner he is gone from holding the office of potus, the better. There is no one walking the earth that is a worse human being!
ReplyDeleteBE GONE, TRUMP!!! You are un-American as they come!
Before Meeting With Muslim Constituents, GOP Lawmaker Asks If They Beat Their Wives
ReplyDeleteMuslim high school students requesting to meet with a Republican Oklahoma lawmaker were presented with a lengthy and hate-filled questionnaire that asked, among other things, “Do you beat your wife?”
That’s according to Adam Soltani, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Oklahoma, who posted a video to Facebook shortly after the incident occurred Thursday.
“I just have been informed by some of our community members that Rep. John Bennett — who in my opinion, at this point, doesn’t even deserve to be called a representative — is refusing to meet with Muslims unless they answer questions from an Islamophobic hate group called Act For America,” Soltani said in the video.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-bennett-islam-questionnaire-us_us_58b9f87de4b05cf0f400bebc?
Trump Feels The Fury Of Twitter After Comparing Himself To Nixon While Attacking Obama (TWEETS)
ReplyDeleteThis isn’t McCarthyism. While Trump did not provide any evidence of his claim, it was well known by intelligence agencies rather early in 2016. Trump even publicly asked the dictator of a hostile foreign power to hack his political opponents. It’s only natural for our intelligence agencies to want to look into that.
Saying nothing of the evidence that has been uncovered that his team kept in constant contact with high-ranking Russian officials during the campaign, Trump demanded to know if it is legal for our intelligence agencies to investigate someone who is openly colluding with Vladimir Putin against the interests of the American people:
http://addictinginfo.org/2017/03/04/trump-feels-the-fury-of-twitter-after-comparing-himself-to-nixon-while-attacking-obama-tweets/
This just be the first time in his life that Trump has been told "no". He can't handle the truth.
DeleteThis bombastic, superfluous,self important buffoon, might want to get himself committed!
ReplyDeleteThe sooner the better!!!His number is up!
Internet Heroes Make Drumpf-Putin Facebook Friendship Anniversary Video; It’s BRILLIANT (VIDEO)
ReplyDeleteYou can watch the film below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJGGd6Np7A
Ha ha, "sacred election process" LOL- this from a guy who called the whole thing rigged! But those tweets sure sounded a lot like Mr. Trump admitting he was in communication with the Russians, or in his parlance, "making deals", during the campaign.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like another Trump adviser has significantly changed his story about the GOP's dramatic shift on Ukraine
ReplyDeleteThe Trump campaign's national-security policy representative for the Republican National Convention, J.D. Gordon, told CNN on Thursday that he pushed to alter an amendment to the GOP's draft policy on Ukraine at the Republican National Convention last year to further align it with President Donald Trump's views.
Gordon's remarks represent a dramatic shift from previous comments, and they come as Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces intense scrutiny over two previously undisclosed meetings with Russia's ambassador to the US — one of which was timed to the convention.
In January, Gordon told Business Insider that he "never left" his "assigned side table" nor spoke publicly at the GOP national security subcommittee meeting, where the amendment — which originally called for "providing lethal defense weapons" to the Ukrainian army to fend off Russian-backed separatists — was read aloud, debated, and ultimately watered down to "providing appropriate assistance" to Ukraine.
According to CNN's Jim Acosta, however, Gordon said that at the RNC he and others "advocated for the GOP platform to include language against arming Ukrainians against pro-Russian rebels" because "this was in line with Trump's views, expressed at a March national security meeting at the unfinished Trump hotel" in Washington, DC.
"Gordon says Trump said at the meeting ... that he didn't want to go to 'World War Three' over Ukraine," Acosta said.
Trump's apparent involvement in steering the language change — Gordon reportedly told CNN that "this was the language Donald Trump himself wanted and advocated for back in March [2016]" — is also at odds with what Gordon told Business Insider in January, when he said "neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Manafort were involved in those sort of details, as they've made clear."
http://www.businessinsider.com/jd-gordon-trump-adviser-ukraine-rnc-2017-3
Scrambling rats. How many more this week, or next...?
DeleteDem Congressman HUMILIATES Trump With One Glorious Tweet; PROVES Absolute Stupidity (IMAGE)
ReplyDeletehttp://addictinginfo.org/2017/03/03/dem-congressman-humiliates-trump-with-one-glorious-tweet-proves-absolute-stupidity-image/
"In Trump’s latest grouping of tweets, he really, really messed up. In fact, following a tweet that said, “We must fix our education system,” he tweeted “I hear by demand…” and then, ” I hearby demand… ” and then finally, “I hereby demand.”
DeleteSNL is back on tonight!
ReplyDeleteTrump, set your phone to TWEET.
DeleteJake Tapper BLASTS Drumpf’s ‘Do A Lot More With Less’ Line: Does A Weekly Visit To Palm Beach Qualify? (VIDEO)
ReplyDeletehttp://addictinginfo.org/2017/03/03/jake-tapper-blasts-trumps-do-a-lot-more-with-less-line-does-a-weekly-visit-to-palm-beach-qualify-video/
Trump is making up the Obama hacking story in order to deflect the press and public's attention from the Russian story, which is real story with legs. Trump will sink to lows we have never seen before from the POTUS. Disgusting!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to them. He's sinking his own ship of state.
DeleteAn Obama spokesman forcefully pushed back against the accusation. "A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," said Kevin Lewis, an Obama spokesman. "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."
ReplyDeleteFormer deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes also tweeted back at Drumpf: “No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obama-wire-tapping-trump-tower-phones-235679
Russia investigations a 'witch hunt'? Not according to polls
President Donald Drumpf insists questions about once-hidden contacts between his inner campaign circle and Russian officials are a “witch hunt.” Public-opinion polls suggest Americans don’t agree.
While the public still has considerable confusion about what, precisely, individuals connected to the Russian government did — and how they might have been connected to the Drumpf campaign — there is general consensus that whatever happened, it merits further independent investigation.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-russia-polls-235667
Drumpf pleads for cash at closed donor retreat
'I need you guys to step up and overwhelm them,' the president tells Republican high rollers.
President Donald Drumpf buttered up a room full of Republican donors Friday night by boasting of his upset 2016 election win and ticking through a list of his surprise swing state victories that even the party high rollers at the private dinner couldn’t have imagined possible.
But Drumpf also told them to focus on what he needs most: campaign cash to win 60 Republican-held seats in the U.S. Senate in 2018.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-donors-republican-senate-235678
It appears that the crux of that argument comes from reporting that U.S. officials secretly monitored a computer server in Drumpf Tower to determine if there were links to Russian banks. A New York Times article published on Jan. 19 — just one day before Drumpf’s inauguration — reported that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies had intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a probe of links between Drumpf’s campaign and Russian officials.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obama-wire-tapping-trump-tower-phones-235679
No, Donald. Obama Did Not 'Order' A 'Wiretap'
ReplyDelete...But I can just touch for a moment, Joy, on the question of the wiretapping. I have been involved in advanced information collection in my world. I have no idea what Donald Drumpf is talking about. We do not even do that the way he probably things from "The Sopranos" where we're running wires into his office. This is very dangerous. The people who would be tasked in Justice, if there were any questions coming from the White House, starting today or anytime in the foreseeable future in how they actually do collections,
it means they're preparing for a coverup, because they want to know how they're actually getting this information. This is what happens when a target starts getting buggy, because he knows that he's caught.
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/03/no-donald-obama-did-not-order-wiretap
Once again comrade trump demonstrates his lack of knowledge on history (McCarthyism, Watergate), spelling (tapp) and how the government works (Obama tapped his phone).
ReplyDeleteThis blame the other guy for his fiascos will play with his supporters, however they are in the minority. If trump is so innocent, it would be really easy to prove, release his tax returns and stop preventing an independent investigation.
After this round of tweets, he went off on Arnold for stating no one watched Celebrity Apprentice because of little donnie-the truth hurts.
So the media can stop reporting, little donnie has turned the corner and become more presidential, ha ha because he can read off a teleprompter.
LMAO. Remember someone claiming that he can't handle the "ghosts" in the White House? Oogedy boogedy, here comes the big bad black man!
ReplyDeleteThat's right, Donnie, President Obama wakes every day with nothing more in mind than to make your life a living hell.
Strait jacket, please.
Malignant narcissist with paranoid schizophrenia sauce.
ReplyDeleteNot a good person to have in the White House.
DeleteBeaglemom
If the Feds Did Wiretap Trump Tower, It’s Not Obama Who Should Worry
ReplyDelete...Look past the president’s conspiracy theories, though, and one fact stands out: However strongly Trump feels that he’s right, he’d better hope he’s wrong.
Tower of FISA
If nothing else, Trump’s tweets show he doesn’t understand how the FISA system works. If he did, he may have limited himself to tweeting about Arnold Schwartzenegger quitting The Apprentice this morning.
“While the order would have been requested by some part of the executive branch, Obama can’t order anything. Nor can Trump,” says former NSA lawyer April Doss, who stresses that her comments are based only on public information. “The order has to come from the court, and the court operates independently.”
FISA court judges serve seven-year appointments, so thay court’s composition doesn’t ebb and flow with the political tides. What’s more, specific laws adopted in the wake of Watergate prevent the very activity Trump accuses Obama of.
“You can’t tap the phones of a political candidate for political purposes,” says Doss.
What you could you tap them for? Acting as a foreign power, or as an agent of a foreign power. In other words, spying
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/feds-wiretap-trump-tower-not-obama-worry/?mbid=social_fb
Trump’s own staff has no idea what Donald Trump is talking about
ReplyDeletehttps://thinkprogress.org/trumps-own-staff-has-no-idea-what-donald-trump-is-talking-about-add534282282#.otwyd26j6
"Rhodes pointed out that a president cannot order a wiretap, while Dean and Lieu suggested Trump’s accusations mean a federal judge found probable cause to monitor the Trump campaign’s communications."Current officials say Trump didn’t consult staff before tweeting this morning, and have no clue what the President of the United States is talking about."
DeleteTrump flashes anger over Sessions recusal, Russia stories in tense Oval Office meeting
ReplyDeleteBefore heading off to his so-called "winter White House" in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, President Donald Trump summoned some of his senior staff to the Oval Office and went "ballistic," senior White House sources told ABC News.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-flashes-anger-sessions-recusal-russia-stories-tense/story?id=45908106
Axelrod: Trump 'kicking up dust only adds to suspicions'
Former Obama adviser David Axelrod slammed President Trump on Saturday for his claim that Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower last year, calling Trump's claim an effort to distract from his own scrutiny.
"This seems 'nutts.' Frantic way in which @realDonaldTrump is kicking up dust only adds to suspicions and the need for full public reckoning," Axelrod wrote on Twitter.
'If there were the wiretap @realDonaldTrump loudly alleges, such an extraordinary warrant would only have been OKed by a court for a reason.'
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/322367-david-axelrod-trump-kicking-up-dust-only-adds-to-suspicions-of
Here Are The Many Ways Donald Trump Scares The Crap Out Of Sane People
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/here-are-the-many-ways-trump-scares-the-crap-out-of-democrats_us_58baf22de4b05cf0f400f9ec?cudgyu1km520a1nhfr&
It is hilarious and scary that Mark Levine a CRAZY right wing radio talk show host is considered a proper source for anything. Ladies & Gentleman we are now under the control of a conspiracy theorist/reality TV star president! Gee what could go wrong?
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ReplyDeleteWATCH: Lindsey Graham harshly booed at town hall after saying ‘I agree mostly’ with Drumpf
ReplyDeleteindsey Graham (R) got a rude — but maybe not unexpected reception at a town hall in Clemson — telling attendees he is trying to work with President Donald Drumpf.
Appearing at the Saturday morning town hall, where constituents lined up hours before the start time to hear the senator who has been one of Drumpf’s biggest critics, Graham learned that even attempting to deal with Drumpf can be met with disfavor.
“I’m going to try to help our president, Donald Drumpf, be as successful as possible because, number one, I agree with him mostly and I’d like to get this country moving again,” Graham said.
Graham’s statement was met with loud and sustained boos from the audience.
Graham’s acknowledgement that he wants to “repeal and replace Obamacare” was also met with shouts and heckling.
Watch the video below via CNN:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/watch-lindsey-graham-harshly-booed-at-town-hall-after-saying-i-agree-mostly-with-trump/
Drumpf is fucking crazy and it pisses me off to see people "wishing" he would start acting presidential. Everyone that's not batshit bonkers should be wishing Drumpf were gone, removed, somewhere else, and should be actively working for that.
The fat orange asshole should build a tower in Russia and ensconce his fat ass in it forever, and take his pack of grifters with him.
Graham likes Drumpf policies? Graham should be waterboarded until he confesses that he's an idiot and Drumpf is a large rodent.
Well, Graham will never meet with constituents again. Pennsylvania's GOP senator is moving his office to the Federal Bldg. in Philadelphia which is almost impenetrable to the general public. Republican politicians only like voters when they're campaigning. The rest of the time they only want to see conservative lobbyists and fund raisers. Everyone else - becomes invisible to them.
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Beaglemom -- the Bunker-down (To the Mattresses soon) President sets the tone, so his made men know what to do.
DeleteIs Obama’s ‘Wire Tapp’ The End Of Donald Drumpf? Maybe! A Holy-Shit-Y’all Investigation Into WTF!
ReplyDeleteRead more at https://wonkette.com/613824/is-obamas-wire-tapp-the-end-of-donald-trump-maybe-a-holy-shit-yall-investigation-into-wtf#PJiFr0v3KK56BVZF.99
What's behind President Drumpf's angry tweets that President Obama tapped his phones
...There’s ... a lot to unpack here.
First, there’s Drumpf’s allegation that President Obama was personally involved in tapping him. He’s offered absolutely no evidence of this, so there’s no reason to believe it. And early Saturday afternoon, an Obama spokesperson released a statement strongly denying the claim, saying President Obama and White House officials did not interfere with Department of Justice investigations as a “rule.”
There’s also no indication so far that Drumpf’s phone calls were personally “tapped.” However, the question about whether “wires” and “phones” in Drumpf Tower “were tapped” before the election is much more difficult to untangle. That’s because there was and apparently still is a wide-ranging, FBI-led investigation into Drumpf associates and Russian operatives or banks. We don’t yet know the investigation’s full scope, or what it may have turned up.
The broader political context is that potential Russia-related scandals continue to dog the young administration, as this week’s controversy involving Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes clear — and that the president himself is still trying to figure out how to best respond.
Many details of the investigation into Drumpf associates and Russia remain unknown
The most likely explanation for why Drumpf is suddenly making the claim that “wires” and “phones” in Drumpf Tower “were tapped” in October isn’t that he got some new government briefing. It’s that he became aware of a recent Breitbart article on how the Obama administration may have been trying to undermine Drumpf. The article, which riffs on a Mark Levin radio segment, was quoted on Fox News Saturday morning and, per the Washington Post’s Robert Costa, has been circulating among White House aides recently.
This daisy chain of conservative media content ultimately leads to an older article from the website Heat Street, written by Louise Mensch. The article reports that, in October, federal investigators got a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant “to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Drumpf’s campaign with ties to Russia.” Mensch’s sources told her that a computer server in Drumpf Tower was a main focus of the investigation, and that emails may have been examined.
Importantly, some aspects of Mensch’s report have been confirmed by other media outlets, but others have not. For instance, the BBC’s Paul Wood reported that an October FISA warrant was issued, but in his telling it was targeted at electronic records from two Russian banks.
So we don’t yet have solid information on 1) whether servers (or phones) in Drumpf Tower were or were not tapped, 2) the evidentiary justification for any tapping that did occur, or 3) exactly whose communications might have been targeted.
Perhaps most controversially, we don’t know whether Drumpf’s own communications may have been targeted — and if they were targeted, what the government’s evidentiary justification may have been.
http://www.vox.com/2017/3/4/14814104/trump-obama-wiretap-phones
Sessions’ Recusal Complicates Drumpf-Russia Probes
How that investigation will proceed inside the department quickly came under close scrutiny Friday by legal experts, particularly as reports spread that the Drumpf administration was rushing to purge agencies of holdovers from the Obama administration.
Lawyers and Justice Department officials on Friday were poring through statutes and scratching their collective heads over who has authority to sign warrants for the FBI’s electronic surveillance of the Russians and Drumpf associates implicated in the probe, now that Sessions has stepped aside.
http://www.newsweek.com/sessions-russia-trump-putin-fbi-investigation-ambassador-recusal-563789
Is Obama’s ‘Wire Tapp’ The End Of Donald Drumpf? Maybe! A Holy-Shit-Y’all Investigation Into WTF!
ReplyDeleteOh hey, do you remember that weird story about the servers pinging back and forth from Drumpf Tower to Russia’s Alfa Bank?
We remember it clearly. It was Halloween, and we were sitting in the Wonkebago in a deserted RV park outside Salt Lake, and our heads were SCANNERS SPLODING from reading two stories in a row: one by David Corn at Mother Jones that first introduced The Dossier, and one by Franklin Foer at Slate about these two mysterious servers pinging each other — and each other only — back and forth from Moscow to Drumpf Tower.
Yes. We’re back to private email servers. Fucking AGAIN.
Within one hour, Eric Lichtblau of the august New York Times had cleared Donald Drumpf of all crimes past, present and future. Law enforcement had looked at the bank, he said, but had finally concluded it was probably spam. And that dossier? Law enforcement hadn’t found a single link between Russia and Drumpf or any of his associates.
Lichtblau’s reporting has not aged well.
Whoops it turns out the FBI got a FISA warrant for the Drumpf Org and Alfa Bank and all ‘US persons’ emailing each other therein
So, Eric Lichtblau’s “law enforcement” source, who we surmised was FBI Director James Comey, may he rot in hell, may have been a tad premature! Or a little bit lie-y! Because at 10 p.m. the night before Election Day, the Rupert Murdoch-owned conservative rag “Heat Street” published a little bit of a scoopty about how, after being denied for a FISA warrant naming Donald Drumpf, the FBI had in October resubmitted a more narrowly drawn warrant, which was granted.
Nobody really saw the story; it was the night before Election Day, there was rather a lot of other stuff going on, and Heat Street, and its editor Louise Mensch, weren’t particularly known quantities as far as national security reporting. Mensch, 45, a former Conservative MP and ’90s party girl, had married Metallica’s manager and become a Big Hater Of Russia and Big Lover Of British And American Spies — and, apparently, they return the favor!
It was two months before BBC and McClatchy would be able to confirm Mensch’s reporting about the FISA warrant, which McClatchy wrote had been granted Oct. 15.
https://wonkette.com/613824/is-obamas-wire-tapp-the-end-of-donald-trump-maybe-a-holy-shit-yall-investigation-into-wtf#PJiFr0v3KK56BVZF.99
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/04/question-when-donald-trump-realized-trouble.html
ReplyDelete"he does not have this authority precisely because of people like"> himself aka little dick donny drumpf
"“grace under pressure” – precisely that virtue Donald Trump so profoundly proved this morning that he lacked." Former President "Barack Obama, was awarded the “Profile in Courage” award by the The John F Kennedy Library foundation"
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/02/president-barack-obama-humbled-receive-jfk-profile-courage-award.html
"Throughout his two terms in office, President Obama upheld the highest standards of dignity, decency and integrity, serving not just as a political leader, but a moral leader, offering hope and healing to the country and providing young men and women of all backgrounds with an example they can emulate in their own lives.”" Indeed, they say, “President Obama’s ENTIRE public life has exemplified the courage that John F. Kennedy celebrated.”
"Former President Barack Obama wrote he was “humbled to be recognized by a family with a legacy of service.”
CONSPIRATOR-IN-CHIEF: DRUMPF DEFLECTS WITH WILD OBAMA WIRETAPPING ACCUSATIONS
ReplyDeleteIn an apparent bid to deflect attention from the mounting controversy over whether his administration has ties to Russia, the commander-in-chief deployed his favorite weapon in the early hours of Saturday morning: dropping a Twitter bomb on the world that accuses President Obama of a conspiracy on the scale of Watergate.
The president, whose administration is facing mounting calls for a special prosecutor to investigate Russia's effect on the election and possible ties to Drumpf associates, fired off four tweets from 6:35 a.m. to 7:02 a.m. Saturday...
...While of course Drumpf's assertions did not come with any evidence whatsoever, it's worth unpacking what it is that he's claiming about the previous presidential administration. If we take his claims seriously, there's either a secretive cabal involving two branches of government conspiring against Drumpf or a brute force, illegal entry was undertaken to establish surveillance on a presidential candidate.
...Still, Saturday's tweetstorm establishes something of a new low for a below-the-belt president with little regard for truth. Obama has long been a punching bag for conservatives who accused him of overstepping the strictures of his office, but Drumpf's claims seek to engulf the still-popular former president in what would be one of the largest political scandals in American history.
And why? Drumpf enjoyed a day or two of somewhat positive headlines after his Tuesday address to Congress, only for those to be supplanted by headlines detailing Attorney General Jeff Sessions's decision to recuse himself from any investigations having to do with Russia and the election. The administration is once again on the defensive, and we know Drumpf greatly prefers to be on offense.
...If there actually had been wiretaps of any Drumpf-related phones, "that means a fed judge found probable cause of crime which means you are in deep shit," tweeted Congressman Ted Lieu of California. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean made the same point, saying that if there were any wiretaps in place, "This means a judge found probable cause that Drumpf was engaging in criminal activity and issued a warrant for a wire tap."
http://www.newsweek.com/conspirator-chief-trump-deflects-wild-obama-wiretapping-accusations-563900
What’s at Stake When Drumpf Discredits the Press
ReplyDeleteDonald Drumpf’s relentless media bashing has become one of the most persistent tropes of his cacophonous early time in office. He and his administration have called the press an “enemy of the people,” slammed leading media outlets as purveyors of “fake news,” dealt harshly with individual reporters at press conferences, excluded leading outlets like the New York Times and CNN from White House press briefings and promised that it will “get worse every day” for the “corporatist” and “globalist” media. Drumpf’s treatment of the press has editors, journalists and media freedom advocates rattled, shattering conventional understandings of an adversarial but mostly respectful relationship of leaders to the press in free countries where the so-called fourth estate is recognized as indispensable to democracy.
But Drumpf’s assault on the media should not come as a surprise. During the campaign, he dealt capriciously and dismissively toward the press, ejecting disfavored outlets from his campaign events and launching broadsides against individual reporters including NBC’s Katy Tur whom he derided as “little Katy” and the New York Times’ Serge Kovaleski whom he mocked for a physical disability. During the campaign, though, Drumpf’s primary foil was Hillary Clinton and his most energetic demonizing was reserved for her. Drumpf was in his element during the campaign; he thrives on conflict, devoting most of his time in speeches and public statements to taking down antagonists.
Now that Drumpf is in office the swipes at him are coming fast, furious and from all sides. Critics are after him for his blunderbuss and discriminatory travel ban, chaotic White House, dehumanizing immigration policies, blundering approach to key global alliances, shadowy ties to Russia and outright admiration for Vladimir Putin, risky healthcare strategy, plutocratic Cabinet and more. The press, reporting on all these issues, has become a proxy for plethora of Drumpf’s adversaries. Lacking appetite and aptitude to rebut the substance of each denunciation, Drumpf aims to discredit the messenger, asking his supporters to doubt everything they hear from traditional sources of news.
While Drumpf hopes to intimidate or cajole the media into more favorable coverage, his tactics are, predictably, having the opposite effect: The press is emboldened, angry and determined not to shrink from rigorous and tough coverage of the White House. Indeed, the risk that Drumpf’s fulminations and shenanigans will actually impair the media’s ability to do its job seems relatively limited: The White House and federal agencies are rife with leakers and, history suggests, the more paranoid and insular the President becomes, the more inclined rational observers on the inside may be to blow the whistle. Nor are damaged feelings a prime concern. Insults to media outlets and reporters can become badges of honor, resulting in raised professional profiles and increased viewers and subscriptions.
But there are three serious risks that Drumpf’s approach raises, and these must be dealt with aggressively and systematically to limit damage to the role of the press in American democracy.
https://www.justsecurity.org/38243/stake-trump-discredits-press/
Breaks my heart.
ReplyDeletePolitico put out a story on 2/27/17 explaining trump airline business. And president of the small trump shuttle airline was another failed business of his. He was a bad hombre then as now. A lousy business man. Documented well by politico magazine and Bruce Noble. Worth the read.
ReplyDeleteAnd a week ago was hen Obama showed up in NY and people went wild. It was also announced that good pal Valerie Jarrett moved into the Obamas' house and it's to be BO's headquarters for his next project and stopping the GOP gerrymandering. So, our amazing pres is back on the scene. For the past week, Trump has had his big moments that have fizzled because of BO, Sessions, the Russian thing. The news coverage has been very good, thankfully, and he's not been bale to just bask in the afterglow of his Tues speech and his appearance that had him looking so ugly in the bomber jacket. It appears that there's nothing going on at MaL that will have him making a big entrance and being worshiped by ball goers.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't believe it when I woke up today and saw the tweet news and then read all the tweets. Trump really is insane. Who can now say that he isn't? This guy has totally lost it. Things were simmering all week and he stayed quiet, but then no longer could, even with Ivanka and Jared at Mar a Lago this weekend. All his talk about Nixon/Watergate just makes him look worse--people are associating him, not BO, with that. He doth protest too much.
ReplyDeleteOT kinda sorta: Swear to God that I'll never get the pee pond. People really think as they do? I decided to visit over there today and yesterday.
ReplyDeleteRecently diagnosed with breast cancer myself, here comes the barely breathing VG1 to get his diatribe in when he's this close to dying.
I was told to keep things as peaceful as possible, yet he prays to his God morning and night while taking it to those damn libruls waking hours when he is not sleeping, internet paid by gofundme account.
If you have bad heart, wouldn't you avoid such shit? My oncologist says it is highly advised.
Again, little donnie shoots himself in the foot with this twitter rage.
ReplyDeleteFirst he tweets about Schumer, however it turns out the gas station is owned by a russian with ties to trump, this info now made public.
Now he accuses Obama of wiretapping his phones and not only does the info about the russian bank ties to trump come out again, after being lost in the election hype, but trump himself “reminds” the public that he is doing something illegal.
So much for being smarter than everyone else.