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Trump claims ex-intelligence chief Clapper admitted FBI spied on his campaign. That's false.
NBC "News" ^ | May 24, 2018 | by Jane C. Timm

Posted on 05/24/2018 1:01:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had admitted that the FBI spied on his presidential campaign, further escalating his attacks on the law enforcement and intelligence communities charged with probing possible collusion with Russia.

"Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign," Trump tweeted, referring to an interview Clapper did Tuesday on ABC's "The View."

But that's false — Clapper did not say that. Responding to a direct question from one of the hosts, Joy Behar — "Was the FBI spying on Trump's campaign?" — Clapper said, "No, they were not."

He went on to explain that the purpose of the FBI's reported use of an informant, which is different from a "spy," was to determine what the Russians were doing.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: behar; clapper; clapperinterview; clapperlies; deepstate; dni; fakenews; informant; janetimm; joybehar; linguisticgymnastics; lsd; lyingmachine; media; mediots; moles; parsing; presstitutes; spies; spooks; spygate; timm; witchhunt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nixon should have used this angle. The Watergate guys were simply looking to see if Ho and Mao and Leonid had infiltrated the ekection process


21 posted on 05/24/2018 1:10:57 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: DesertRhino
Ohhhhh... so they were protecting Trump from Russians. Now I get it!

That's the current CYA line. If true, why didn't they bother to warn Trump?

22 posted on 05/24/2018 1:11:13 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like Clinton saying he didn’t have sex because it was oral sex.


23 posted on 05/24/2018 1:11:53 PM PDT by djpg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump is smart with this strategy. Whether Clapper has directly admitted or not, he was most definitely involved as a ring-leader, and Clapper has parsed his words and lied before

Get it out into the public and associate “Clapper” with “domestic spying” and “coup plotting”

As LBJ said: “I just want to hear the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”


24 posted on 05/24/2018 1:11:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


25 posted on 05/24/2018 1:12:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Let's see, the NOTHING BUT CRAP (aka NBC) news lies.....and you expect us to be surprised?
26 posted on 05/24/2018 1:13:14 PM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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To: djpg
Sounds like Clinton saying he didn’t have sex because it was oral sex.

He actually said that, more or less. He said "She had sex with me, but I didn't have sex with her."

27 posted on 05/24/2018 1:13:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now you are trying to polish and shine one end of a turd.
The informate was placed to report on the Trump camppain. No matter how hard you try to find the clean end of this turd he was spying on the Trump team.

The informate would not have been there if Trump’s team had not been there. The whole purpose was to see if the Trump organization was talking to the Russians and that damn well is spying.


28 posted on 05/24/2018 1:13:53 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here is a direct quote from his appearance on The View:

“They were SPYING on, a term I don’t particularly like, but on what the Russians were doing.”


29 posted on 05/24/2018 1:13:55 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“False” according to whom?


30 posted on 05/24/2018 1:14:44 PM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: Bernard Marx

If true, Hillary should sue for being discriminated against, since the feds took no similar action to protect her campaign from foreign infiltration, the sexist bass turds.


31 posted on 05/24/2018 1:16:25 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Bernard Marx
...so they were protecting Trump from Russians.

So, Hillary did not need to be protected from Russian influence?

32 posted on 05/24/2018 1:16:39 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Kozy

I think you mean “The Chew” is canceled.


33 posted on 05/24/2018 1:16:50 PM PDT by map
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They were good ole boys doing good things!

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34 posted on 05/24/2018 1:16:54 PM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Does Clapper think we're stupid?

Informant = Spy

What' Clapper isn't saying is....how many. And if you were trying to protect Trump, Trump should know about it....like duh...

35 posted on 05/24/2018 1:17:46 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kozy

Yes!! About time.


36 posted on 05/24/2018 1:18:37 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Frapster
"Was the FBI spying on Trump's campaign?" — Clapper said, "No, they were not."

Halper is CIA...

37 posted on 05/24/2018 1:18:46 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

See, they were spies. And they were in his campaign. And they were setting up his campaign workers for perjury traps. But to say that there were “spies in his campaign” is false.


38 posted on 05/24/2018 1:20:08 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have the complete audio soundbite in front of me cued up, and although he initially stammered and said “no”, he actually did admit it in a roundabout way by redefining “spy” and suggesting that the quickest route to surveil the Russians was through the Trump campaign. That’s an admission of the basic facts.


39 posted on 05/24/2018 1:20:17 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: PGR88

IIRC, it was Clapper who gave instructions to Comey as to what should happen at his first private meeting with the President.


40 posted on 05/24/2018 1:21:34 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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