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Fox News Slammed by Legal Experts for Saying Trump Was Right About Obama Wiretap
Newsweek ^ | September 20, 2017 | Graham Lanktree

Posted on 09/21/2017 1:50:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Following reports that Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman was under surveillance, Fox News pundits jumped to the president’s defense Tuesday, asserting that his claims the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower have now been vindicated. Yet they couldn’t be more wrong, said legal experts.

It all goes back to Trump’s tweet on March 4 that he “found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump also compared it to “Nixon/Watergate,” when President Richard Nixon attempted to bug the Democratic Party headquarters.

Defending Trump’s months-old claim, Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson said Tuesday: “Not everything the president says on Twitter is factually accurate. But to anyone who has been in Washington for a while, that claim didn't seem crazy or really that unlikely.”

Carlson said CNN’s report that Paul Manafort—who was chairman of Trump’s 2016 election campaign between last June and August—had been under FBI surveillance since 2014 prove that “all those patronizing assurances that nobody is spying on political campaigns were false and probably intentionally so.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: manafort; obama; obamawiretapped; surveillance; trump; trumpwiretapped

1 posted on 09/21/2017 1:50:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All of the communication wires in Trump Tower belong to Donald Trump so, in fact, his wires were tapped in his tower by agents of the Obama administration just as he clamed. So Obama's lawyers can go eff themselves.

2 posted on 09/21/2017 1:57:00 AM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ‘Rats need to 9rove that Trump was not under any kind of surveillence directly by the IC or indirectly by other countries who then forwarded any intel to the US IC.

Brennen, KKKlapper and Comey are weasels.


3 posted on 09/21/2017 1:59:59 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Newsweak still peddling fake news even after their constant lying put them out of the news printing business?
4 posted on 09/21/2017 2:02:24 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: RC one

Same outfit that suppressed the Monica Lewinsky story.

Isakoff was told to hold off and got scooped by Drudge about the blue dress evidence.


5 posted on 09/21/2017 2:13:17 AM PDT by heavy12773
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These idiots are not LEGAL EXPERTS.

They are experts in piles and piles stuff -- HORSE MANURE.

Or is it COW MANURE.

Of course, the source of this is none other than: NewsWEAK -- so weak on truth...

6 posted on 09/21/2017 2:30:43 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“legal experts” can go #### themselves, but being lawyers, they might like that.


7 posted on 09/21/2017 2:41:11 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“If Trump was talking with foreign agents who were under FBI surveillance,”

No, the FBI used the fake dossier to spy on Manafort so they could spy on Trump, the real target.


8 posted on 09/21/2017 2:47:09 AM PDT by odawg (WAE2 0)
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To: topher

They are human waste.


9 posted on 09/21/2017 3:30:12 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the words of Richard Pryor, paraphrased from Groucho Marx, “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”


10 posted on 09/21/2017 3:57:50 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: heavy12773

How Spikey got his nickname...


11 posted on 09/21/2017 3:59:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL! “Legal experts”. Sound more like Obama trenchermen - get their names from keeping their noses so far up his “trench” that their world view is focused into a single pucker....


12 posted on 09/21/2017 4:03:56 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Newsweak is very fake news.


13 posted on 09/21/2017 4:11:22 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How can they, using legal expertise, slam fox for saying something trump said was right, when trump’s statement was so vague that it could be pretty much right in most cases?

Answer: They are politically motivated and don’t want him to be perceived as even remotely close to accurate about what happened.


14 posted on 09/21/2017 4:28:45 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”


I’m a binary thinker so this is easy for me.

Were wires IN THE TRUMP TOWER tapped? If the answer is “yes”, trump was right.

Were they still being tapped just before the victory? If the answer is yes, trump was right.

His wording was downright sneaky, intentional or otherwise.


15 posted on 09/21/2017 4:31:20 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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