——appointees in the White House were using its database on a huge scale to monitor political opponents,-—
Implied in that sentence is the certainty that Donald Trump was not the only candidate subject to the political espionage. It is a lead pipe cinch that all Republican candidates were targets of the espionage.
That would apply to the early front runner Jeb Bush
It is a lead pipe cinch that all Republican candidates were targets of the espionage.
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An unusually large number of Republican congressmen “retired” before the last election. Just saying.