Posted on 05/20/2018 1:22:41 PM PDT by Magnatron
President Donald Trump on Saturday called for his Justice Department to allow members of Congress to review documents related to an FBI informant who spoke to some of Trump's advisers during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Only the release or review of documents that the House Intelligence Committee (also, Senate Judiciary) is asking for can give the conclusive answers. Drain the Swamp!"
The tweet, which fosters an unsupported theory circulating on Capitol Hill and conservative media outlets about an intelligence "informant" spying on the Trump campaign, appears to be the first time Trump has called for the department to allow lawmakers to see the documents. It sets up another possible battle between the President and his own Justice Department. Trump has attacked the department's leaders over their handling of the Russia investigation, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal from that probe, and criticized the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Earlier this month, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes threatened to hold Justice Department officials in contempt of Congress if they don't release documents related to the source that he has subpoenaed.
The FBI dispatched an informant to speak with some advisers to Trump's presidential campaign about its possible ties to Russia, according to multiple reports Friday. The New York Times identified the informant as "an American academic who teaches in Britain," but noted that it "typically does not name informants to preserve their safety." The Times reported the informant spoke to Trump campaign advisers George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, while The Washington Post named those two as well as Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The FBI dispatched an informant to speak with some advisers to Trump's presidential campaign about its possible ties to Russia, according to multiple reports Friday.
They can’t even keep their lies straight in the same article. “Unsupported?” Looks like they supported it only two paragraphs down!
Oh, and by the way, CNN, last I checked, The New York Times isn’t “Capitol Hill” or a “conservative media outlet”.
CNN (Counterfeit News Network) – 1st Place in Trump's 2017 First Annual Fake News Winners AKA Biggest Liars of the Lying Leftist Media with FOUR entries in the top ten
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
Why post this b/s? Why not post the TRUTH about the lies? You don't have to use the liar as the source to post a headline that alerts readers to a published lie. Use yourself as the source or a reasonably reliable source that addresses what the Lying Leftist source is saying. That way you have a headline and a source that your readers can reasonably rely on and they go away more informed about the lie AND the truth.
If this story is true and has some redeeming value, at least get the story from a reasonably reliable source, not from a known Lying Leftist operative posing as a “news” organization. You’ve done the Patriotic Right a service. Much better than the mindless repetition of lying sources and their lying headlines.
If we’re told a lie, don’t repeat it. Neutralize the lie by speaking the truth. Lies aren’t defeated by repeating the lie. Lies are defeated by repeating the truth. We should have our eyes on the prize - in this case, politically, what it takes to recover our Free Constitutional Republic. That should be what we major on and focus on.
IMO, if a poster can't be bothered to do that, then they shouldn't post. If they're going to be bothered to post, do it right. We're on a mission here.
There are so many deep-staters leaking to tilt the narrative in their favor the news is going to be incoherent for the next few weeks. Everything will get sorted out in court.
Trump “calls” for Justice Department to let a few Congressmen read the documents?
“F” that noise!
Trump is the Chief Executive Officer of the Justice Department.
Just declassify and release the documents to the public, Donald!
Why has Trump allowed the FBI and the DOJ to make him look like a criminal for the past 16 months?
Good luck with that.
Rod Rosenstein’s wife is Clinton attorney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9aPbSP4eSE
Here’s my “unsupported theory”.
I think when Trump won, the Deep State freaked out because they knew things like this informant and other crimes of theirs might come out. So the REAL “insurance plan” wasn’t just to use the Mueller investigation to attempt to get rid of Trump because they didn’t like him, but more importantly to cover their butts in hopes they could get him out before all this came to light.
But it’s too late for that now, and they are in full panic mode as evidenced from things like Clapper trying to spin this in the media as a “good thing” or by their media allies ridiculously saying - oh no, he wasn’t an implanted “spy”, he was an implanted “informant”, and claiming that the real crime was the “treasonous” act of revealing his identity (even though it really was the media themselves that did that by dropping so many hints).
The DOJ cannot investigate the DOJ.
We simply do not have anyone who was not complicit in the Kenyanesian Usurpation to do any prosecuting.
C’mon! You’re the president, quit tweeting and start issuing orders!
@realDonaldTrump 6m6 minutes ago More I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!
Good first step. Now, will Sessions recuse himself and turn it over to Rosenstein?
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