Posted on 04/03/2017 8:38:58 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.
“The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with,” diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”
Other knowledgeable official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to TheDCNF diGenova’s description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
“I suppose you believe the Trump was playing nine dimensional chess (evidently 3-D chess is not grand enough for the Grand Master) as has been insisted on these threads.
The problem is his numbers are in the tank and a lot of the country, a huge percentage of the country, believes that he is unstable partly because of these kinds of tweets.”
Look, we all know you don’t like Trump. You make it manifestly obvious. But your anti-Trump comments become tiresome and boring. Go take a vacation, maybe to Tahiti.
I think its clear now the motive for the Russian ruse was to provide cover for this if it ever got out.
Apparently, Cruz and Hillary would have been well-served by a similar, dangerous, use of Twitter, because something powerfully positive comes out through its use.
At least you have company with MSNBC and CNN liberals with your stance.
The media knows the same surveillance is compiled on them as individuals.
Worth repeating.
Just wait ‘til Comey hears about this!
No jail.
Republicans were also spying, they are NeverTrump.
As a slap to citizens, Republicans just passed the law to spy on your browsing history. That is tapping your phone calls.
...to swallow that NSA facility in Utah whole.
If you act like a nut in public; folks tend to stay out of your way.
So when Trump unmasks information on Hillary and prosecutes her citing an Obama era intell program....
Trump Support Plunges In Latest IBD/TIPP Poll
JOHN MERLINE4/03/2017
Just 34% of the public approve of the job President Trump is doing, as his support among Republicans and independents tumbles, according to the April IBD/TIPP poll. Fifty six percent disapprove of the job he’s doing. Approval ratings for a president haven’t been this low since President Bush’s last months in office.
Last month, 40% of independents approved of the job Trump is doing; just 29% approve today. Among Republicans, Trump’s job approval is 74%, which represents a 14-point decline from last month.
The latest IBD/TIPP poll was taken from March 24-30, and includes responses from 904 people across the country, giving it a margin of error of +/-3.3 percentage points. The national sample of adults had 34% Democrats, 30% Republicans and 36% Independents.
Across the board, the poll has bad news for Trump.
He lost significant support among his strongest backers: white men (which dropped from 58% in March to 49% today), and rural America, which went from 56% to 41% today.
Gallup
Trump’s current 36% is two percentage points below Barack Obama’s low point of 38%, recorded in 2011 and 2014. Trump has also edged below Bill Clinton’s all-time low of 37%, recorded in the summer of 1993, his first year in office, as well as Gerald Ford’s 37% low point in January and March 1975. John F. Kennedy’s lowest approval rating was 56%; Dwight Eisenhower’s was 48%
But
Presidential job approval ratings are fluid, and all presidents have seen both upward and downward swings in their ratings at various points in their administrations — a historical precedent indicating Trump’s approval could drop further or recover in the weeks and months ahead. An encouraging sign for Trump, perhaps, is that all presidents whose ratings fell below 36% — with the exception of Nixon — saw their ratings improve thereafter. Clinton provides a particularly relevant example. His approval rating dropped to 37% in June 1993 but recovered to 56% by September of that year.
http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/207416/trump-approval-rating-drops-new-low.aspx?
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Great post — as usual! I learn from your posts. Where I disagree, I know you have the most intelligent opposing view, and absorbing it will broaden my mind even if it doesn’t change my mind.
Rock on.
Lot of noise...I hope when the tree does hit the ground it actually makes a sound.
Will Obama continue to live 2 miles from Trump’s White House??
If Obama cancels his residence there, it is an admission of his guilt. The heat is getting to him.
The purpose of my criticisms is to get him to stop these impulsive tweets and start courting the public with the image of gravitas that his approval numbers reveal he so desperately needs. I advise him to do this not to rebuke him but to make him more powerful so that those policies of his of which I approve might succeed.
It explains why all 17 "agreed" on the Russian influence scam. Yuge smoke for cover.
All this just because Hillary didn't win and DJT did. The best laid plans of mice and men.
So, Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump and his team? Isn't that what is being said?
I have a truckload of it I can sell you so cheap! I will take a major loss, since I bought it retail just before Lois Lerner testified. Or maybe it was Koskinen...or Lynch...no wait, I think it was Comey I. Maybe Comey II. Or Cheryl Mills? I dunno.
And you are absolutely right.
Part of the problem is that people got hung up over the "wiretap" terminology, which is as obsolete as talking about dialing a phone. But people still use those terms even though phones don't have dials, and capturing phone calls doesn't require some agent to creep into a phone closet with clip leads and a tape recorder. And when a captured call is between an office in the Trump Tower and some other location, as some of those calls surely were, does it even matter where the "tap" was? Or, for that matter, the physical location of a server that might have been hacked?
An inherent problem with Twitter is the severe length limitation which forces the user to abbreviate his thoughts, and that often introduces distortion. I am not saying that Trump shouldn't use Twitter, but I agree that he does need to be more careful when he does.
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