New Disclosures Confirm: Trump Himself Was the Target of Obama Administration’s Russia Probe

National Review ^ | 8/1/2020 | ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

[Beave Meister]

Assertions that the focus was ‘the Trump campaign’ are now known to be ludicrous

Long-sought documents finally pried from U.S. intelligence agencies prove that the Obama administration used the occasion of providing a standard intelligence briefing for major-party candidates as an opportunity to investigate Donald Trump on suspicion of being a Russian asset.

I say investigate Donald Trump advisedly.

As I contended in Ball of Collusion, my book on the Trump-Russia investigation, the target of the probe spearheaded by the FBI — but greenlighted by the Obama White House, and abetted by the Justice Department and U.S. intelligence agencies — was Donald Trump. Not the Trump campaign, not the Trump administration. Those were of interest only insofar as they were vehicles for Trump himself. The campaign, which the Bureau and its apologists risibly claim was the focus of the investigation, would have been of no interest to them were it not for Trump.

Or do you suppose they moved heaven and earth, surreptitiously plotted in the Oval Office, wrote CYA memos to cover their tracks, and laboriously sculpted FBI reports because they were hoping to nail . . . George Papadopoulos?

My book was published a year ago. It covered what was then known about the Obama-administration operation. In collusion with the Clinton campaign, and with the complicity of national-security officials who transitioned into the Trump administration, the Obama White House deployed the FBI to undermine the new president, dually using official investigative tactics (e.g. FISA surveillance, confidential informants, covert interrogations) and lawless classified leaks — the latter publicized by dependable journalists who were (and remain) politically invested in unseating Trump.

[lepton]

The fact that the Kenyan from Indonesia did not provide even a jpg of a forgery until citizen Trump asked about it is an indictment of EVERYONE involved, particularly Congress which has a duty under the 20th Amendment to qualify the candidate as eligible.

They failed if they did not even confirm his age, much less his natural born citizen status.

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And that is the case regardless of his actual citizenship status, as there was legitimately a question on the issue.

[JonPreston]

I’m still staggered knowing that both Comey and Brennan have admitted to being communist and yet they were still confirmed by the Senate! Back in Joe McCarthy’s day they had the decency to hide their treasonous allegiances. How many more Reds hold political power, because they aren’t alone.

[Chickensoup]

How many more Reds hold political power, because they aren’t alone.

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Many do.

Look at the mayors and governors of the troubled states, the State dept.and the leadership of most of the other bureaucracies on a state and national level.

Then there are the universities and the media.

We are surrounded by b leftists and he’ll, we PAY them.

[Albion Wilde]

Bingo.