Posted on 05/04/2018 7:33:20 AM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, had his phones wiretapped by the FBI, and at least one phone call with the president was intercepted, according to a report on Thursday.
NBC News reported Thursday, citing two people with knowledge of legal proceedings involving Cohen, that federal investigators had wiretapped Cohen’s phone lines, but it is not clear how long it has been authorized.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsel probe after Attorney General Jeff Session’s recusal from the investigation, authorized the referral.
This is the second known wiretap on a Trump associate. The FBI obtained a wiretap on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in October 2016, using the infamous “pee dossier” as an essential part of the surveillance warrant application.
That wiretap was authorized and renewed four times.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Impeach Rosencriminal now!
This was exactly what liberals have condemned since the 1970’s. The wiretapping of your political foes was Watergate.
This story is false and has already been walked back by NBC.
Fedzilla has been out of control for decades.
George H W Bush put the Deep State on steroids.
Nothing false about it, merely terms clarified.....the core truth remains, which is that the FBI has been illegally surveilling the President and his surrogates......The President’s Constitutional Rights against illegal search and seizure continue to be GROSSLY VIOLATED and Congress must stop it now!
Why the President doesn’t take these violations to the Supreme Court at this time is a mystery.
The FBI ‘Monitored’ the President’s Attorney’s phone calls vs ‘wiretapped’....mere Symantecs.....totalitarian tactics used to interfere with the President’s attorney-client privilege.
Totally illegal activity
Amazing how they publish a lie and get it to stick for weeks afterwards.
I think it’s deliberate.
Silly, Rosenstein knows what is in the OIG report that is forthcoming, it’s in the final review stages now, so he will not be saying or doing anything that is contrary to what’s in the report.
Yes, it's undermining rule of law -- but they didn't tap his calls, they watched the log to see what numbers made and rec'd calls from his office. NOT A WIRETAP, NOT MERE SYMANTICS.
IF.. a huge IF... the media had had programs/shows/hosts, that critiqued obama day after day, all day, all the time .. perhaps I could stomach the constant chatter/criticism (Fox is the only one I can watch) they give on our Pres Trump.
As it is, I hope there are millions more with the same resolve I have, to be (no matter what) a Trump supporter against the media and all who hate him for no reason except they lost... the good he is doing is a FIRST in my lifetime!! and it’s ignored for a lousy story on a prostitute.
They said they were not tapping Donald Trump’s calls during the campaign. It was just his associates.
Executive Branch FEDs surveilling the President under a thin veneer of unconstitutional authority is illegal.....symantecs
“They said they were not tapping Donald Trump’s calls during the campaign. It was just his associates.”......
OH, ......and that makes violation of his associate’s constitutional rights LEGAL?
President Trump, go to the Supreme Court now!
Obama’s friends in government are conduct law-fare against your lawful authority....Fourth Amendment violations are being utilized by the Injustice Department under the malefeasence of Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosencriminal.
“Illegal search and seizure by the police in conflict with the 4th Amendment may give you the right to sue the police for damages. The 4th Amendment provides that we should be free from unreasonable or illegal search and seizure, and is generally enforced by exclusion of the evidence from any trial should you be prosecuted.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP:
Obama’s friends in government are conducting law-fare against your lawful authority....Fourth Amendment violations are being utilized by the Injustice Department under the malefeasence of Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosencriminal.
Take it to the Supreme Court now!
“the core truth remains, which is that the FBI has been illegally surveilling the President and his surrogates”
Uh, everyone in the US has their call data intercepted by the Feds. Cohen is not special in this regard.
It doesn’t even require a warrant.
Hyperbole.
“Totally illegal activity”
No, it’s not.
Unconstitutional, maybe. But it’s legal.
No, there’s not just a semantic difference between wiretapping and keeping track of calls. There’s no symantec difference, either.
I agree that Rosenstein is a democrat-leaning slob who’s main inclination is to nail Donald Trump in something impeachable. He should be fired immediately.
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