The Department of Justice has acknowledged in a court filing no evidence of any wiretaps on Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, directly contradicting a claim President Trump made in March.
The Justice Department filed a motion Friday evening acknowledging that it didn't have any evidence to back up the president's assertion.
The motion was filed in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the transparency group American Oversight. It found that neither the National Security Division or the FBI had any records of wiretapping that President Trump alleged.
"The FBI and Department of Justice have now sided with former [FBI Director James] Comey and confirmed in writing that President Trump lied when he tweeted that former President Obama ‘wiretapped' him at Trump Tower," the group said.
So yes, that means when Trump tweeted this he was full of shit.
But I think the vast majority of up already knew that, didn't we?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
If you are stunned that the Department of Justice spent any time investigating this, you will undoubtedly be equally stunned at this next story.
Courtesy of CNN:The woman who laughed at Jeff Sessions during his confirmation hearing will be put on trial AGAIN pic.twitter.com/2nzR3Fjtyv— NowThis (@nowthisnews) September 2, 2017
The Department of Justice will retry a woman whom prosecutors say disrupted Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing for attorney general by laughing.
After rejecting a plea deal, Desiree Fairooz will again face charges of unlawful conduct for disrupting Sessions' hearing in January.
According to court records, Fairooz rejected a deal offered by prosecutors that would have required her to plead guilty in exchange for a recommended sentence of time served.
Fairooz was detained after audibly laughing after Sen. Richard Shelby told senators at Sessions' confirmation hearing that the then-Alabama senator had a record of "treating all Americans equally under the law."
You know my question is not why did this woman respond to that ridiculous statement with laughter, it is how did everybody else in that hearing resist doing the same?
So this is our Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions.
Investigating imaginary wiretaps and prosecuting people who dare laugh at him.
Of course. Hey, if anyone gets a chance, check out on CNN's website the letter President Obama left in the Oval Office for Donnie Two Scoops. Makes me miss President Obama even more ...
ReplyDeleteActually, I'm kinda glad that the Justice Dept formally investigated Trump's bullshit claim. We all knew it was a big lie but with a formal investigation, Trump has been officially shown to be a big liar and this, at worst, can help him be defeated if he runs in 2020, and at best may make Mueller's case for impeachment proceedings easier.
ReplyDeleteMe too, but until the media starts giving this the light of day as NOT FAKE NEWS we're screwed. Call him out on everything! I so despise him.
DeleteWith a formal Justice Dept conclusion against him, he can't scream fake news like he does about everything else that he doesn't like.
Delete__ So this is our Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions. Investigating imaginary wiretaps and prosecuting people who dare laugh at him __
ReplyDeleteThat is some of the better Session DOJ? I haven't heard much good for America from them.
#Houston #HouNews The Bishop
'I've had with the insults. Let's see him stand in E. coli water reporting for hours like the media does. #khou'
'Pres. Trump praises Coast Guard for saving people "by going into winds that the media would not go into...unless it's a really good story.'
Trump and his wife would be the very last folks I'd want to see if I lived in TX! They have zero empathy and are phony as Hell! Plus, his wife is the coldest thing on earth w/blank eyes.
ReplyDeleteDo I miss President Obama and First Lady Michelle? You betcha!
I still see NO one clamoring for interviews with the "esteemed" Melania. She must have one lonely life, and I have no sympathy whatsoever nor ever will.
Deletewhahahaha
DeleteSubject in the pee pond today. Why still the media obsession with Michelle? Maybe I'll buy them a clue. "I'll take idiots for $100, Alex!"
Isn't laughing considered free speech? I'm hoping she didn't accept a plea deal in order to make a real laughing stock of Whiney Sessions.
ReplyDeleteOh, and, my President Obama has way too much class to imitate the stupidity of DJT, who's been reported to wiretap and hint wiretapping (remember Comey?).
GeorgiaPeach
Screw Comey, and the horse he rode in (and out) on.
DeleteWasn't it Sessions who interrupted Obama's speech by screaming "You lie" (when in fact he was telling the truth)? If so, why was he never prosecuted?
DeleteAnonymous 10:30 AM --
DeleteIt was another congressman, Joe Wilson, and he got it back in kind this April
http://time.com/4735587/joe-wilson-barack-obama-you-lie/
10:30 AM - Joe Wilson R-SC
DeleteLaughter is an involuntary response.
DeleteThey might as well arrest her for sneezing or blinking.
AFTER they arrested her for laughing, she protested and that is what the jury initially found her guilty of. The judge dismissed their verdict because that was not the charge she was indicted under. It was the laugh alone.
The ACLU and her attorney will continue to hammer home the fact that you can't arrest someone for laughing and any disruption that followed that illegal act is void since it was caused by an illegal arrest.
This entire thing is a FARCE. It's like putting the Anti-Fa on the Homeland Security list of Domestic Terrorists. It's designed on bully and intimidate protesters into silence and undermine the First Amendment right to free speech and assembly.
It's FASCISM!
Here is Maddog on Obama
Deletehttps://i.pinimg.com/736x/ed/92/a2/ed92a2a001c167fc4768b53813008ffe.jpg
Alabama AG candidate calls for militias to help shut down abortion clinics
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/3/1695675/-Alabama-AG-candidate-calls-for-militias-to-help-shut-down-abortion-clinics
Time to go militia hunting.
DeleteI never thought for a second that President Obama would wiretap. It would be Benghazied if Session hadn't spent funds to clear it. Does Trump even notice his stupidity after things like birtherism is found to be a witch hunt?
ReplyDeleteMexico has had hell to pay while they offered to help Houston. What are those crickets I heard from the Trumps?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tropical-storm-lidia-mexico-baja-1.4273445
Around Los Angeles the largest fire for that city has been raging. The heat wave is horrible. What did Trump have to say to the victims?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-california-heat-wildfires-20170902-story.html
Or was he too busy working on his script and what he had to say in Texas? He did go to church for National Prayer Day, is that a first? Melania is Catholic, he is going to attend with his wife?
Yesterday drivers faced passing through flames and smoke on the 210 Freeway when a wildfire erupted in La Tuna Canyon north of Burbank, CA.
Deletehttps://twitter.com/WeatherNation/status/903937917071921152
Trump is mad at Mexico and he doesn't like California. No good for photo-ops so why bother with them?
DeleteThis doesn't mean the DOJ invetigated the wire-tapping claims. A FOIA request was submitted. The DOJ didn't respond. So the requestor filed a court case, and in the case, the DOJ was ordered to respond. They responded and said they had no records of any such wiretap. They didn't "investigate." They searched their records to see if there were any responsive documents. They found none.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Why would they have to investigate? They'd know if they had any wiretaps or not, just a simple records check. ...Unless the assertion was that Obama, personally snuck into Trump tower and hooked up wires to Trump's phones...
DeleteHow can she be tried for the same 'crime' a second time? I thought there was a law against that exact thing!
ReplyDeleteThe career criminal has decided to play unifier and he won't break the law according to Kellyanne Conway.
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2017/09/conway-says-trump-will-unify-country
The wiretapping, computer hacking, is for the Paranoid.
ReplyDeleteUnless...
Don't forget that the Department of Homeland Security has put Anit-Fa groups on the Domestic Terrorist list. They apparently can't tell the difference between protesters and ANARCHISTS.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention it is also a way to silence protesters and undermine further the First Amendment right to assembly and free speech.
Huffington Post printed the letter Obama left for Trump on the Resoulute Desk. It's obvious Trump either never read it or is not only ignoring it but going out of his way to do the exact OPPOSITE.
if this investigation shows just how insane the orange clown in the White house is, it was worth the time and money. she is the second to be suffer for us, after Heather. remember, fight without violence.
ReplyDeleteO say put the candidate for Alabama AG on point
ReplyDeletewith his militia. Bet he shits his pants first off when he faces the U.S. Military response.
Fucking loud mouth,pussy.