[sargon]

Looks like somebody overplayed their hand a bit.

Can you imagine if a Republican engaged in something like this?

It appears that Hillary and Obama went on an illegal and unethical fishing expedition in an all-out effort to destroy Donald Trump, and they came up with jack sh!t.

And they were all counting on Hillary winning so that all of this criminality could be swept under the rug. That didn't work out too well either.

By any stretch of the imagination, President Trump has been vindicated on his tweet.

It's like Mark Levin said: this story isn't about the President's tweets. No, it's about illegal surveillance and unmasking fomented by the deep state at the behest of the Hillary campaign, and/or under the auspices of the Obama administration.

This is as dirty and excessive as it gets. Obama's legacy is going down in flames, not just due to the actions of President Trump, but by the breathtaking hubris of President Obama himself. What a disgraceful progressive "hero".

The criminals should be prosecuted and the repudiated Democrat party should be kept out of power for decades to come...

[Vlad The Inhaler]

By any stretch of the imagination, President Trump has been vindicated on his tweet.

Oh yes!

He will be swamped with the phone calls, tweets and eMails of apology from those who have ridiculed him.

Well not really.

The minute I heard about his "wiretap" tweet I knew darn well he was on to something.

[nathanbedford]

By any stretch of the imagination, President Trump has been vindicated on his tweet.

No is entirely too early to claim the application and certainly not by "any stretch of the imagination." It is true, however, that he has moved closer toward vindication as a result of these revelations.

As I said on the very morning when he came out with these tweets at 5 AM, the style of the tweets was extremely ill advised. He has been drubbed unmercifully in the leftist media because his tweet was so ineptly styled. I said then and I say now, he should have consulted with competent attorneys, he should have mobilized the Attorney General, he should have presented his allegations to the public with the full panoply of his office and supported with at least some facts. He left himself open to criticisms for misusing the word "wiretap," for claiming that it occurred in the Trump Tower, and for alleging involvement by Barack Obama himself, without any support then or since then. The tweets were half cocked and the vindication has long since passed the attention span of the public.

That is a pity because it was so easily avoided.

As usual, Mark Levin had it right, the story is about the leaking but Donald Trump's tweets gave the left media the excuses needed to disparage and even ignore Trump except for his tweets and, therefore, the seriousness of the leaking

I hope Trump is vindicated and it looks like he will be but he has lost miles in approval ratings in the meantime because he tweeted before he consulted, all as I argued that morning with you. I never took the position that he had no basis for the claim only that the atmospherics were being mishandled. Perhaps the impulsive tweets can be overcome as revelations of Democrat criminality emerge with every news cycle.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

If a Republican did this, calls for impeachment would be above the fold at the Slimes and Compost and all over CNN, ABC, CBS, etc.