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WHY OBAMA REALLY SPIED ON TRUMP (September 2017)
FrontPage Mag ^ | September 20th 2017 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/09/2021 2:08:54 PM PST by Jacquerie

Obama had to spy on Trump to protect himself.

The spying ramped up after Trump’s win when the results could no longer be used to engineer a Hillary victory, but would instead have to be used to cripple and bring down President Trump. Headed out the door, Rice was still unmasking the names of Trump’s people while Obama was making it easier to pass around raw eavesdropped data to other agencies.

Obama had switched from spying on a political opponent to win an election, to spying on his successor to undo the results of the election. Abuse of power by a sitting government had become subversion of the government by an outgoing administration. Domestic spying on opponents had become a coup.

But it’s the pattern that makes the crime. It’s the context that shows the motive.

Obama Inc. compartmentalized its espionage operation in individual acts of surveillance and unmasking, and general policies implemented to aid both, that may have been individually legal, in the purely technical sense, in order to commit the major crime of eavesdropping on the political opposition.

When the individual acts of surveillance are described as legal, that’s irrelevant. It’s the collective pattern of surveillance of the political opposition that exposes the criminal motive for them.

If Obama spied on two of Trump’s campaign leaders, that’s not a coincidence. It’s a pattern.

A criminal motive can be spotted by a consistent pattern of actions disguised by different pretexts. A dirty cop may lose two pieces of evidence from the same defendant while giving two different excuses. A shady accountant may explain two otherwise identical losses in two different ways. Both excuses are technically plausible. But it’s the pattern that makes the crime.

Manafort was spied on under the Russia pretext. Bannon may have been spied on over the UAE. That’s two different countries, two different people and two different pretexts.

But one single target. President Trump.

It’s the pattern that exposes the motive.

When we learn the whole truth (if we ever do), we will likely discover that Obama Inc. assembled a motley collection of different technically legal pretexts to spy on Trump’s team.

Each individual pretext might be technically defensible. But together they add up to the crime of the century.

Obama’s gamble was that the illegal surveillance would justify itself. If you spy on a bunch of people long enough, especially people in politics and business, some sort of illegality, actual or technical, is bound to turn up. That’s the same gamble anyone engaged in illegal surveillance makes.

It’s a crime. And you can’t justify committing a crime by discovering a crime.

If everyone were being spied on all the time, many crimes could be exposed every second. But that’s not how our system works. That’s why we have a Fourth Amendment.

Nor was Obama Inc. trying to expose crimes for their own sake, but to bring down the opposition.

That’s why it doesn’t matter what results the Obama surveillance turned up. The surveillance was a crime. Anything turned up by it is the fruit of a poisonous tree. It’s inherently illegitimate.

It’s the dirty cop using illegal eavesdropping to generate leads for a “clean” case against his target while betting that no one will look too closely or care how the case was generated. If one of the Mueller targets is intimidated into making a deal, the question of how the case was generated won’t matter.

Mueller will have a cooperative witness. And the Democrats can begin their coup in earnest. It will eventually turn out that there is no “there” there. But by then, it’ll be time for President Booker.

There’s just one problem.

If the gamble fails, if no criminal case that amounts to anything more than the usual investigational gimmick charges like perjury (the Federal equivalent of ‘resisting arrest’ for a beat cop) develops, then Obama and his allies are on the hook for the domestic surveillance of their political opponents.

With nothing to show for it and no way to distract from it.

That’s the race against the clock that is happening right now. Either the investigation gets results. Or its perpetrators are left hanging in the wind. If McMaster is fired, which on purely statistical grounds he probably will be, and a Trump loyalist who wasn’t targeted by the surveillance operation becomes the next National Security Adviser and brings in Trump loyalists, as Flynn tried to do, then it’s over.

And the Dems finally get their Watergate. Except the star won’t be Trump, it will be Obama. Rice, Power, Lynch and the rest of the gang will be the new Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell.

Once Obama and his allies launched their domestic surveillance operation, they crossed the Rubicon. And there was no way back. They had to destroy President Trump or risk going to jail.

The more crimes they committed by spying on the opposition, the more urgently they needed to bring down Trump. The consequences of each crime that they had committed spurred them on to commit worse crimes to save themselves from going to jail. It’s the same old story when it comes to criminals.

Each act of illegal surveillance became more blatant. And when illegal surveillance couldn’t stop Trump’s victory, they had to double down on the illegal surveillance for a coup.

The more Obama spied on Trump, the more he had to keep doing it. This time it was bound to pay off.

It’s why the media increasingly sounds like the propaganda organs of a Communist country. Why there are street riots and why the internet is being censored by Google and Facebook’s “fact checking” allies.

It’s not just ideology. It’s raw fear.

The left is sitting on the biggest crime committed by a sitting president. The only way to cover it up is to destroy his Republican successor.

A turning point in history is here.

If Obama goes down, the left will go down with him. If his coup succeeds, then America ends.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; greenfield; obama; obamatrump; russiagate; russiahoax; spygate; trump
Obama had switched from spying on a political opponent to win an election, to spying on his successor to undo the results of the election. Abuse of power by a sitting government had become subversion of the government by an outgoing administration. Domestic spying on opponents had become a coup.

The left is sitting on the biggest crime committed by a sitting president. The only way to cover it up is to destroy his Republican successor.

A turning point in history is here.

If Obama goes down, the left will go down with him. If his coup succeeds, then America ends.

1 posted on 12/09/2021 2:08:54 PM PST by Jacquerie
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To: Jacquerie
WHY OBAMA REALLY SPIED ON TRUMP

Because bathroomcam.com pays good money for celebrities.

2 posted on 12/09/2021 2:16:30 PM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: Jacquerie

Obama is not a natural born citizen and should never have had the ability to do this because he is ineligible.


3 posted on 12/09/2021 2:23:33 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jacquerie

One more scandal that has been shoved down the memory hole. If Trump had spied on Obama, the local media would be treating it, well, like it was January 6th. Obama should have been put in Leavenworth for the rest of his life.


4 posted on 12/09/2021 2:24:50 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: Jacquerie

Absolute truth


5 posted on 12/09/2021 2:30:17 PM PST by combat_boots (Hi God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! W)
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To: OrangeHoof

Of course.

The media were complicit/conspirators in Obama AND BIDEN’S crimes.

While John Durham isn’t much in the news, he is systematically flipping over flat damp rocks and catching the creatures that scurry out.


6 posted on 12/09/2021 2:32:24 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: All

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Durham is recreating a narrative that the FBi was swindled.

They were totally taken off guard, the False FISA applications, the leaks, and Orh’s wife working as a Spy to get Trump - that didn’t have anything to do with anything.

If you believe the FBi wanted to get at the Truth in this matter, there’s nothing that can be done for you.


7 posted on 12/09/2021 2:46:12 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: AnthonySoprano

All the same, some live bodies need to start going down for this.


8 posted on 12/09/2021 2:48:20 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: All
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Who do you think Protected Obama?




9 posted on 12/09/2021 2:49:59 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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Republicans had subpoena power.



Then his real answer


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10 posted on 12/09/2021 2:52:38 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Jacquerie

Quote:

“If Obama goes down, the left will go down with him. If his coup succeeds, then America ends.”

That ship sailed.


11 posted on 12/09/2021 2:58:29 PM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Jacquerie

……and he is going to write a really really long REPORT in 2039.


12 posted on 12/09/2021 2:59:29 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta is now a Dictatorship, there are no more “laws..”)
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To: OrangeHoof

As it is he is rotting in his beachfront mansion.


13 posted on 12/09/2021 3:06:02 PM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: humblegunner

Obama never thought Hillary could win either.


14 posted on 12/09/2021 3:29:06 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: Jacquerie

When officials let the scumbag get away with his grandest of scams on the American people and fraudulently claim the WH, it really is not a surprise that he thought he could get away with anything.


15 posted on 12/09/2021 3:40:18 PM PST by iontheball
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To: Magnum44

And they need to much higher up on the food chain— culpable criminal actors. You are correct— and a list is easy to compose vs. sitting aside and watching the clock tick.

Do think that the motivator for everything that continued the “coup” —everything: ‘peach # 1 and ‘peach #2 to assist the digital electoral theft, the digital and manufactured mail in ballots to box stuff, the ridiculous response to the January 6 Stop the Steal huge protest (to create a false flag “insurrection” into the Capitol by opening the doors and employing fellow dnc travelers antiFA and BLM employed agitators ), then create a “commission” to continue the attacks against Trump and pry false testimony (or any testimony) -— all of this is driven by Obamaumao’s minions and himself FEAR of exposure. As Greenfield wrote back in 2017.

This is what has happened. In the process, however the democrats are destroying themselves and our Country. They are falling apart and committing desperate acts—including trying to drive the country into a war (sound familiar WWII?) so they can maintain control like what they are— Alinsky govt. mobsters.


16 posted on 12/09/2021 4:11:11 PM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Jacquerie
"WHY OBAMA REALLY SPIED ON TRUMP"

Because he's a borned and bred communist. The same gene that predisposes you to entertaining communist thoughts also predisposes you to being an habitual spy and a compulsive liar.

And Sheikh Obama got the trifecta.

17 posted on 12/09/2021 5:46:30 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: TTFlyer

“If Obama goes down, the left will go down with him. If his coup succeeds, then America ends.”

That ship sailed.

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That ship has sailed and is now sinking.


18 posted on 12/10/2021 5:50:15 PM PST by just Grace
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