Before you guys start planning the ticker tape parade let me point out that when Rogers informed Trump in November he had known for almost a year what was up.
A fact that simply VERIFIES that the scheme was run out of the Obama administration.
Rogers valued his life and the life of his family too much to speak publicly or speak to Obama regarding something that Obama wanted to keep hidden.
Yeah, I thought that part of the timeline was strange.
Since early 2017 I have been working with an alternative theory of what actually happened:
1. The Trump team knew about the surveillance long before Rogers visited Trump Tower on November 17, 2016. Rogers may have even been the one who informed them about it months earlier.
2. The Trump Tower visit was simply for the purpose of optics -- to help give a public impression that the Trump people were learning about the surveillance for the first time.
3. The Trump team used the surveillance to their advantage by using it to feed disinformation about the campaign to the Obama/Clinton cabal.
Yes, he knew about it for a year, and I’ll venture that he also knew that to tell Obama would only get him fired before he had a chance of telling a new president who would try to fix the problem. As the Kenny Roger’s “Gambler” song says: Know when to hold ‘em.....
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Timing. Better late than never.
An excellent point. Why do you think that is? Maybe he himself wanted to see if the manufactured rumors were true or false? Maybe he wanted to see how deep the plotters went? was it indeed an attempted coup, or something less sinister?
I have always had interest in Deputy AG for National Security John Carlin. He saw, and approved these sec.702 requests to NSA, and the FISA warrants. It was his job. He resigned right before the election. why? He was clearly involved. No one ever asks what he knew.