If the Obama administration clearly had conducted this surveillance of the Trump campaign, then why didn't any of these extraordinary measures do any good in the 2016 election?
“If the Obama administration clearly had conducted this surveillance of the Trump campaign, then why didn’t any of these extraordinary measures do any good in the 2016 election?”
Because Trump isn’t a dirty, corrupt scumbag like the rest of them. He’s a true American Patriot. He will someday be mentioned in conversations with/about George Washington.
He used their corrupt behavior against them and it worked.
Sweating they are....tight sphincters everywhere....
Someone here on FR made the point that Trump knew about the surveillance, and used it to play the other side.
Counterintelligence is a wonderful game.
I think it says something really awful about our opponents.
It's a pretty standard belief that we now have so many laws that everyone basically commits a felony every day. Heck, if the government wants to "get you" they just have to look at what you did last week, and they can ruin your life.
Well, the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA actively surveilled Trump for over a year looking for anything they could find to destroy the guy.
They found nothing.
And NORMAL people would say, "This man is practically a saint! I can't believe how clean he is! Maybe he would be good for this country."
But not these people. They just grit their teeth and growl, "Make something up. I don't care if he's innocent, we need to destroy this guy. Find a way."
Just awful.