Posted on 03/05/2017 8:46:06 AM PST by TigerClaws
President Donald Trump is asking Congress to look into whether the Obama administration abused its investigative powers during the 2016 election, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement Sunday. The request came a day after Trump took to Twitter to accuse former President Barack Obama, without providing any evidence, of wiretapping his phones in Trump Tower in the weeks before the November election.
"Reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling," Spicer said in the statement, which he also posted on Twitter. "President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016."
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Pelosi on CNN said that Obama had nothing to do with a wiretap but if the DOJ did that's another matter having nothing to do with Obama. There's the Democrat Lie Zone for this -- Obama didn't do it; his political hack appointed Attorney General did; and he learned about it (you guessed it) when he saw it in the news.
Katrine Pierson on Fox this morning said Trump has access to information we haven't seen yet. So let them deny, deny, deny. Then drop the proof bomb on them.
Pelosi’s statement says it all. It IS true. AND we can KNOW Obama was at the core of it by her having to mention that he isn’t.
This is a reversal. At the very least Trump will back them off. You have to hit a bully in the mouth. He just did it. And he went after their gold plated bully king, Obama.
If Trump pushes this to the top of the news every day, it’ll scare them into getting his cabinet votes done.
Now that’s grounds for appointing a good Special Prosecutor like Andy McCarthy conduct.
Democrats can’t even keep their lies straight. Obama has been guilty of abusing power before - dirty dealings in his IRS and AG’s.
This is a reversal. At the very least Trump will back them off. You have to hit a bully in the mouth. He just did it. And he went after their gold plated bully king, Obama.
I think Americans learned all they need to know about “congressional investigations” during the Obama regime’s reign of terror. Take the Fifth, laugh in the faces of the buffoons and get up and leave.
This is what is Trump’s strength. He fights back. Hillary thought that she had crippled Trump with her nasty October surprise and Trump assembled Juanita Broderick, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey and delivered a counterattack that exposed the Clintons as total hypocrites.
Then why turn it over the a bunch of numb-nuts in the congress?
So far, the Mainstream Republican Leadership seems to be ignoring President Trumps plea for an investigation, and AG Sessions is AWOL again.
Trump/Sessions could order an investigation, but it would be led by Obama appointees, and we have seen how that worked out.
TWB
This is making me disbelieve the wiretapping episode.
The administration would be in the best position to perform an investigation since it is in charge of DOJ and the intelligence agencies.
As such, they can at least gather and produce the warrants in question, both criminal and FISA demonstrating at least that the systems were monitored.
Congress can take it from there, if it’s desired to have a “neutral” party conduct the full investigation.
White House requests Congress investigate whether Obama administration abused power
So what happens if they did abuse power? Short answer...nothing. Same as with Holders contempt of congress. All kabuki theater by the assholes trying to appear relevant to the voters.
They abused power everyday for 8 years.
Democrats using one of their golden rules.
If you can’t blame someone deny everything.
Hillary had the most to gain...Lynch was effectively working for Hillary by June/July of last year...
But it would have been illegal for 0bama/Lynch to give information gained from any FISA warrant discovery to HRC or BJ, no? Hatch Act.
Omg, Trump did not include any evidence of the wire tapping in his tweet? While I dont tweet myself, I would certainly include footnotes and full documentation of anythig I refernce in a tweet, all within the generous chartacter limit, if I ever did.
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