so much in the following piece of ????
Fake News from the start, suggesting only “conservative media” were covering the Rice story.
wrong for the President to talk about Rice, but no evidence of Russia/Trump collusion after endless months of investigation doesn’t mean stopping that 24/7 farce.
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3 Apr: NYT: Trump Tries to Deflect Russia Scrutiny, Citing ‘Crooked Scheme’ by Obama
By PETER BAKER and MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Adam Goldman contributed reporting.
The president’s broadside against his predecessor coincided with a string of reports in conservative news media outlets that Susan E. Rice, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, requested the identities of Americans who were cited in intelligence reports about surveillance of foreign officials, and who were connected with Mr. Trump’s campaign or transition.
Former national security officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, described the requests as normal and said they were justified by the need for the president’s top security adviser to understand the context of reports sent to her by the nation’s intelligence agencies...
Mr. Trump first accused Mr. Obama a month ago of tapping his phones at Trump Tower during the campaign last year. He has refused to back down, even though Mr. Obama and his top aides have adamantly denied it...
In an interview broadcast on BBC on Monday evening, John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director under Mr. Obama, chided Mr. Trump for making an unsubstantiated allegation against the former president. Mr. Trump, he said, has “a solemn obligation” to provide information “that is accurate, that is measured and that is not just a spontaneous or impulsive number of words.”...
While other officials have said there is no convincing evidence so far of collusion between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russian officials who meddled in last year’s election, Mr. Brennan said that “it would be premature at this time to make any determination, or rule anything out.”...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/us/politics/twitter-trump-clinton-obama.html?_r=0