Trump vs Everybody on "Wiretap"

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It’s President Trump vs. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, and FBI Director James Comey.

During a White House press briefing on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that despite denials from the aforementioned individuals, President Trump “stands by” his claim that former president Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.

“First of all he stands by it,” Spicer said in response to a question from ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Thursday. “But again, you’re mischaracterizing what happened today. Again, I go back to what I said at the beginning—it’s interesting how at the same time, where were you coming to the defense of that same intelligence committee and those members when they said there was no connection to Russia.”

“The bottom line is that the president said last night that there would be additional information coming forward,” Spicer pressed on. “There’s a ton of media reports out there that indicate that something was going on during the 2016 election. And I think it’s interesting where was the questioning of the New York Times or these other outlets when that was going on.”

Asked specifically whether he thought that Trump would be vindicated with his initial claims, Spicer - reinforcing a line from Trump on Wednesday night - said “I believe he will.”

"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump told Tucker Carlson on Fox News. "I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks."

This whole saga began with a series of tweets President Trump sent before 7 a.m. on March 4. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory,” the first tweet said. “Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

Since then, there has been no additional verification that anything of the sort happened and the White House has twisted into pretzels to back up a series of tweets that were reportedly based on the president reading a Breitbart article.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/16/white-house-pushes-wiretap-claim-despite-evidence.html

 

spicey was pretty mad!!!! SAD!!! Really late for the presser. 

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Man, did Bad-Suit Sean do a line of coke before he went out there today? Belligerent and sad little man you half expect to have a coronary at the podium and then beat the medics over the head for showing up.

 

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54 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Man, did Bad-Suit Sean do a line of coke before he went out there today? Belligerent and sad little man you half expect to have a coronary at the podium and then beat the medics over the head for showing up.

 

Mulvaney was hyped up, too!!! 

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In a highly unusual move, GCHQ has denied an allegation repeated by the White House press secretary on Thursday that the British spy agency had helped former president Barack Obama “wiretap” Donald Trump during the 2016 election.

“Recent allegations made by media commentator judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wiretapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense,” a GCHQ spokesperson said in a statement. “They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”

Senate intelligence chiefs of both parties reject Trump wiretapping claim

 

 

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This week, Napolitano, Fox News judicial analyst, claimed during an interview on the network that three intelligence sources confirmed to him that the Obama administration used GCHQ to spy on Trump so that there would be “no American fingerprints on this”.

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Doubling down on the very troubling stupid. Par for the Trump and his team of lackey's. Sad!

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/16/gchq-denies-wiretap-claim-trump-obama