Posted on 05/24/2018 1:01:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had admitted that the FBI spied on his presidential campaign, further escalating his attacks on the law enforcement and intelligence communities charged with probing possible collusion with Russia.
"Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign," Trump tweeted, referring to an interview Clapper did Tuesday on ABC's "The View."
But that's false — Clapper did not say that. Responding to a direct question from one of the hosts, Joy Behar — "Was the FBI spying on Trump's campaign?" — Clapper said, "No, they were not."
He went on to explain that the purpose of the FBI's reported use of an informant, which is different from a "spy," was to determine what the Russians were doing.
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Nixon should have used this angle. The Watergate guys were simply looking to see if Ho and Mao and Leonid had infiltrated the ekection process
That's the current CYA line. If true, why didn't they bother to warn Trump?
Sounds like Clinton saying he didn’t have sex because it was oral sex.
Trump is smart with this strategy. Whether Clapper has directly admitted or not, he was most definitely involved as a ring-leader, and Clapper has parsed his words and lied before
Get it out into the public and associate “Clapper” with “domestic spying” and “coup plotting”
As LBJ said: “I just want to hear the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”
He actually said that, more or less. He said "She had sex with me, but I didn't have sex with her."
Now you are trying to polish and shine one end of a turd.
The informate was placed to report on the Trump camppain. No matter how hard you try to find the clean end of this turd he was spying on the Trump team.
The informate would not have been there if Trump’s team had not been there. The whole purpose was to see if the Trump organization was talking to the Russians and that damn well is spying.
Here is a direct quote from his appearance on The View:
“They were SPYING on, a term I don’t particularly like, but on what the Russians were doing.”
“False” according to whom?
If true, Hillary should sue for being discriminated against, since the feds took no similar action to protect her campaign from foreign infiltration, the sexist bass turds.
So, Hillary did not need to be protected from Russian influence?
I think you mean “The Chew” is canceled.
They were good ole boys doing good things!
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Informant = Spy
What' Clapper isn't saying is....how many. And if you were trying to protect Trump, Trump should know about it....like duh...
Yes!! About time.
Halper is CIA...
See, they were spies. And they were in his campaign. And they were setting up his campaign workers for perjury traps. But to say that there were “spies in his campaign” is false.
I have the complete audio soundbite in front of me cued up, and although he initially stammered and said “no”, he actually did admit it in a roundabout way by redefining “spy” and suggesting that the quickest route to surveil the Russians was through the Trump campaign. That’s an admission of the basic facts.
IIRC, it was Clapper who gave instructions to Comey as to what should happen at his first private meeting with the President.
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