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Trump tweet: "Obama FBI spying on my campaign could be 'bigger than Watergate'"
thehill.com ^ | 5/17/18 | JULIA MANCHESTER

Posted on 05/17/2018 4:02:13 PM PDT by Liz

President Trump touted a report saying the FBI under ex-Pres Obama spied on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race, saying that the revelation could be "bigger than Watergate."

“Wow, word coming out that the Obama FBI 'SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN IMBEDDED INFORMANT,'" the president tweeted in reference to a National Review report published last week.“Andrew McCarthy says, 'There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.' If so, this is bigger than Watergate!”

The report alleges that Obama-led agencies used their surveillance powers to monitor the Trump campaign.

This is not the first time that the Obama administration has been accused of spying on the Trump campaign. Last year, Trump accused the former president of wiretapping Trump Tower shortly before the 2016 election. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped,' in Trump Tower just before victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" the president tweeted in March 2017.

"The president used the word 'wiretap' in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities during that," former WH press secretary, Sean Spicer, said. "There is no question that during the Obama administration, there were actions about surveillance, and other activities, that occurred in the 2016 elections."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fbi; obama; spying; surveillance; teflonobama; trumpcampaign
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To: MayflowerMadam

Agreed 100%!


21 posted on 05/17/2018 4:18:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Liz

of course, the big difference is the MSM covered Watergate 24/7 for years.

shun the FakeNewsMSM.


22 posted on 05/17/2018 4:20:52 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The Watergate excesses (using the term inclusively to include things like "dirty tricks") were unnecessary. Nixon was a shoo-in to be re-elected. If Ed Muskie had been the Democrat nominee, he would have carried a few more states than McGovern did, but it would still have been like Eisenhower's victories over Stevenson. But Nixon and CREEP wanted a landslide and that tripped them up.

The Obama/Hillary/Comey/Brennan conspiracy in 2016 was different--there was a real contest and the conspiracy was meant to ensure the right person won.

23 posted on 05/17/2018 4:22:11 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Barack Obama was never eligible to be President and BOTH parties knew it.
Not one of our elected or appointed stood up for the Constitution.
It is so much worse than most people think.


24 posted on 05/17/2018 4:27:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“The crimes at the tail end of the Kenyanesian Usurpation pale in comparison to the crimes committed before that and the violation of our Constitution by BOTH parties.”

I think we would both agree that it was an 8 year long treason regime. It should surprise no one that America is in this state after true-believing marxists, maoists and muslims were in charge of the executive branch for that long. We had an illegitimate enemy combatant named, Barack Hussein Osama(Obama is swahili for osama), as commander in chief of our armed forces. If that’s not a death knell for America, I don’t know what is...


25 posted on 05/17/2018 4:27:50 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Both parties colluded to bring us the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Obama could not have done what he did without the cooperation of the GOP.


26 posted on 05/17/2018 4:30:13 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Agreed


27 posted on 05/17/2018 4:31:00 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Liz

28 posted on 05/17/2018 4:31:28 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: Liz

bkmk


29 posted on 05/17/2018 4:33:26 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Liz

Weak Tweet this time, Mr. President. There is a multitude of offenses committed by this criminal cabal, each far surpassing Watergate.


30 posted on 05/17/2018 4:37:15 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Agree 100% !!!


31 posted on 05/17/2018 4:50:59 PM PDT by Fireone (Dump Klobuchar, Smith, and Ellison. Do the country a favor!)
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To: Liz

Barry’s head should be on a pike when this is over.


32 posted on 05/17/2018 5:00:38 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Liz

Watergate = Romper Room


33 posted on 05/17/2018 5:20:24 PM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Steely Tom

I’ve thought about the reverse. Whatever it is that they end up being known to have gotten away with, Trump should do exactly the same in 2020.


34 posted on 05/17/2018 5:27:31 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: freedomlover

Yes, in parts....


35 posted on 05/17/2018 6:33:41 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: Liz

And the reason nothing will come of this is because the informant and the Attorney General have the same last name.


36 posted on 05/17/2018 7:02:58 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Liz

COULD BE???


37 posted on 05/17/2018 7:18:59 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: jazminerose

Had Trump lost to Clinton she would have destroyed him and his financial empire in short order. She’s still working it....


38 posted on 05/17/2018 7:39:48 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: Verginius Rufus

Nixon and CREEP wanted a landslide and that tripped them up?

( not according to g gordon liddy )
The watergate breakin was a john dean operation to see if there was anything tp connect him to his hooker looker


39 posted on 05/17/2018 9:10:04 PM PDT by South Dakota (We need a real independent investigation of Bill/Hillary and Obama's actions)
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To: South Dakota
I have run across that theory but don't know whether it has validity. John Dean over the years has shown that he is pretty unprincipled but was he in a position to instigate the break-ins (the June 17th break-in was the second one) on his own? And if it was just a rogue operation by JWD, why did Nixon think it vital to cover up what had happened?

In any event, CREEP did other things besides the Watergate bugging that were dubious ethically, whether illegal or not, and not necessary.

Of course if we knew all the shenanigans perpetrated by earlier Democratic campaigns they would probably put Watergate in the shade.

40 posted on 05/18/2018 10:32:24 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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