Posted on 05/23/2018 12:44:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... In recent days the president, in tandem with his allies in conservative media, has launched a full frontal attack on special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. But the president has provided no evidence to support his allegations.
This latest unproven claim of a spy scandal now joins of list of other bold allegations by the president that so far have not proven true, including his claim that President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped, that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election, and that President Obama was not born in the United States.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice announced that the president's demand for an investigation into the FBI's investigation will be handled as part of an ongoing internal review by the inspector general. And officials from the Justice Department, Director of National Intelligence and the FBI are expected to comply Thursday with a request from a handful of House Republicans to brief them on highly classified documents related to the FBI probe.
These lawmakers, led by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., hope the documents will answer their questions about whether the FBI overstepped. But the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., calls it an abuse of power.
"I don’t think any of us have any idea what the White House is doing, except that they want to use any mechanism they can to get their hands on materials they think will be useful for their legal defense team and they’re willing to break down the wall of independence between the White House and the Justice Department to do it," Schiff told ABC News. "Sadly, they have allies in Congress who are all too happy to help in destroying these institutions."
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The MSM pundits still haven’t figured it out that Trump never tweets claims that he doesn’t already know are true. It’s going to be a painful education. Too bad.
Four things to understand about SPYGATE: 1) There was no spy in the Trump campaign. 2) The spying that did NOT happen was totally justified. 3) It would be bad for national security to identify the spy who doesn’t exist. 4) His name is Stefan. #SPYGATE
- Scott Adams on Twitter
1. The NYT ran a story on January 20, 2017 about the FBI using wiretaps in their investigation of the stupid "Russia collusion" narrative.
2. After Trump accused the Obama administration of "wire tapping" him in early March, the NYT ran a story on March 4, 2017 claiming that Trump had no evidence for this accusation.
3. What this graphic doesn't show you is that at least one NYT reporter (Michael Schmidt) is listed on both stories.
I keep asking myself, are these people really that dumb or are they just full bore partisan activists. I know the answer, I just wish they would say ABC, not ABC “News”.
Lack of evidence didn’t keep them from launching this whole Spygate fiasco in the first place. What gall.
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And now they’re caught and don’t know how to spin it.
“Gonna be of lot of crow on the menu for liberals.”
I think the hate and anger we will see on Nov. 7 will at least equal what we saw in 2016.
They tossed away all reason to support their god the Fraud for eight years.
They will NEVER learn.
Clapper admitted to the spying, and said that it was to “protect Trump” and that he should be “happy about that.” I guess ABC doesn’t bother to watch TV or do any reading.
yep, these aren't writes for a news outlet, they are Democrat political partisan hacks.
The contrast in how the Deep State media reports what POTUS claims and what their unnamed sources claim is hillarious. Trump’s claims are always unfounded or unproven, whereas the cowardly unnamed sources always are to taken as gospel.
abc “news” should be investigated for their distortion, dishonesty, fraud and omission. They are an embarrassment to the First Amendment.
You can almost feel the hyperventilating as they write this "counter attack" against their enemies Trump and the conservative media.
You can’t make stuff up that’s as stupid as ABC...
“The past few days, Trump and associates have CLAIMED spying on Trump’s campaign...No evidence has been given...”
Mueller and his team have been investigating Trump and associates for almost 1 1/2 YEARS and NO evidence has been given...Does ABC report this as well???
Hell, no!!!!!!!!!
“Latest unproven claim”? They’ve all been proven.
KENDALL KARSON MARIAM KHAN
This is your KKK muslim “reporter” with today’s fake news.
NBC attacks and now ABC jumps in comparing Spying and Birther nonsense, which was originally started by Clinton.
Someone HIGH up in the past Administration is REALLY scared!
Spygate is alleged while Russian Collusion is established fact.
No wonder CNN’s Jake Tapper just had a meltdown and accused the President of constantly lying and trafficking in conspiracy theories.
Sounds like projection. The fake news media is unhinged and becoming desperate.
wall of independence between the White House and the Justice Department.
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ABC, please see US Constitution, Article II, Sections 1 & 6, then try, just try, to repeat this drivel with a straight face.
These so-called ‘journalists’ are a stupid bunch, both collectively and individually.
Do they not know, or even realize, that President Trump has at his disposal, massive amounts of intel and probably video and audio recordings in addition to the print version of the emails these conspirators sent each other?
He has known since BEFORE THE ELECTION what these Obamaturds have been doing all along.........................
Just when you think the media out does itself on stupidity, they prove you wrong as they become even more idiotic.
Gonna be quite a lot for several FReepers too ...
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