This may be it folks; Watergate 2.0 is here. Finally an appropriate scandal worthy of the stupid ‘gate label.
Last night on Fox, Paul Ryan sat down with Brett Baier – who asked Ryan to opine on new bombshell revelations that the Obama administration made two requests to wiretap Trump and his associates. Tellingly, Ryan acts like he doesn’t know what Baier is talking about, then keeps robotically returning to the talking point that no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign was found.
Baier: There’s a report that [in] June 2016, there’s a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) request by the Obama administration to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several campaign officials. They get turned down, and then in October they renew it, and they do start a wiretap at Trump Tower
Ryan: Well, again… [stammers] and like I said, nobody in congress has been presented with any evidence to the contrary of what you just said.
Baier: So you believe it to be true?
(long pause)
Ryan: Yeah, that… that, we have seen no evidence that anybody in this campaign, um, or any other American was in on it with the Russians to meddle in our elections. We know they meddled. Russia’s an adversary, and that’s something we have to work to counteract.
Baier: I got it, but the point is that the Obama administration was pretty aggressive – a couple of FISA requests.
Ryan: No, I hear your point, but I’ve seen nothing of that – nothing come of that. That’s my point.
Watch how Paul Ryan tries to nervously deflect Brett Baier's questions re: Obama wiretapping Trump. It's going down. ? #Watergate2 #Wiretap pic.twitter.com/MBMVz9TTcD
— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) March 4, 2017
In response to the bombshell revalation, Trump shot off several tweets:
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Obama responded by calling it “unequivocally false”
Neither @barackobama nor any WH official under Obama has ever ordered surveillance on any US Citizen. Any suggestion is unequivocally false pic.twitter.com/qF04X3NUvq
— Kevin Lewis (@KLewis44) March 4, 2017
Except what’s this? He’s totally did just that:
You wiretapped 20 AP phones, seized the phone records of James Rosen's parents & said he was a criminal conspirator. https://t.co/PBybRSyUmz
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 4, 2017
Except James Rosen, his parents the AP. https://t.co/ibGd7K0Ma4
— Kerry Picket (@KerryPicket) March 4, 2017
Let's not forget in 2013 Obama had Fox News reporter James Rosen's phone tapped, calling him a "co-conspirator" under the Espionage Act. https://t.co/AWyoPrq5G7
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) March 4, 2017
@ValerieJarrett you are LYING. Obama had Holder monitor James Rosen pic.twitter.com/6Idv17oNvL
— BudaVision (@BudaVision32) March 4, 2017
Ben Sasse is calling for clarification:
my statement on wiretapping… pic.twitter.com/OzYkOCXeEh
— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) March 4, 2017
And for those who want to argue semantics – whether Obama ordered the wiretaps directly or not:
Watergate has always been mired in controversy over whether or not Nixon actually ordered the break-in; evidence going both ways exists, yet it was enough to impeach Nixon:
Who ordered it? “There is no evidence,” Dean writes, “in all the Nixon-Watergate-related conversations that anyone in the White House had advance knowledge that Liddy was going into the Watergate.” –MSNBC
…the articles of impeachment drawn up against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee in 1974, the “smoking-gun” tape that forced him to resign, did not link him to the original order for the break-in, they link him only to the cover-up afterward. –The Observer
We’re not talking about an impeachment, of course… Just one more nail in the coffin of credibility within the Democratic party as all their narratives unravel.
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Both sides out there masking their shitty fucking behavior, and you guys eat it up. New conspiracy, government manufactures hysteria/click bait articles. Will pay down national debt with clicks. Downside, turns people in to retards…. you could give a national inquirer and a magazine version of Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, breitbart and infowars and barely tell the difference.
Reds have no soul. Communists within will be purged. Along with that fucking cult.
Whatever Joshua. The left cooked up this entire Russian narrative, and now they’re being caught in lie after fucking lie. Julian Assange more or less said their source was Seth Rich (Wikileaks issued something like a $25K reward to solve his murder, then raised it to $40K or whatever), and Podesta’s password was passw0rd. Plus the FBI said 5 state agencies hacked the DNC, yet the dems point to Muh Russians instead of taking responsibility for their horrendous candidate.
At the end of the day, Podesta / Hillary / Joule / Uranium One is a rock solid connection to Russia, while Trump’s team had a media pundit (Flynn) and Sessions meeting with a diplomat. Big fucking deal.
Oh, then there was that god damn golden shower “dossier” that McCain was in on.
It’s the left and the RINOs that brought this into absurd tabloid territory, not Trump.
Trump triggered the libtards with their own medicine, again.
ZeroHedge just released an update. Trumps chief counsel might obtain proof that FISA tap was authorized on Trump and his associates. Game over if he gets that document.
It’s easy to find the answers you want to hear….. I can confirm any belief I have with google. Spending all of our time confirming a bias instead of challenging it makes us weak.
In retrospect, this makes me wonder what the Trump tower climber, and some of the other intruders, were up to last summer…. http://nypost.com/2016/08/20/fellow-psych-ward-patients-in-awe-of-trump-tower-climber/
Seems to me like part of this post is well placed on iBC Shill Saturday. But then you link to the illegally survielled reporter saying we need a non partisan quest for the truth so which is it? Cuntard right wheel spinning or the truth?
Jesus I’m so ready to get this country moving again. In the right direction or in any direction
Exactomundo Daniel son. Think for yourself, question authority. Just Friday, media was all about some stupid agenda to knock Trump about some of his people doing their job and conversing with worldy politico’s even before being in the admin. I don’t get the hate about some ambassador that is all over the place and apparently met with everyone like usual.
Mr Buccs your astute observations never cease to amaze. Trump might be playing advanced chess here and none of us know it yet.
Josh, yeah, humans tend to seek information sources which confirm their bias. Sources which vilify people on the other side of the debate. They seek to get their schadenfreude on …damn the facts.
In the current political environment more than ever, where people stand on an issue is defined by their opposition to the other side, not by logic. This is a normal tendency, but it has been exacerbated by the atmospherics created by the hyperbolic puffery of Trump and the hysterical behavior of the Democrats/Neocon/MSM/deep state. The best one can do in my view is to not let oneself get caught up in this …to not let your opponents define where you stand.
Trump appears to have authoritarian and militaristic impulses and this concerns me, but I spend more of my efforts in opposition to a much greater concern: the anti-Russia hysteria that is being promoted by the Neocon/MSM/deep state and by their tools in the intelligence community and their dupes in our entertainment industry. These maniacs have killed/displace millions since 2001, are they going for billions?
Trump is shining the truth light on American politics ans the politicians/lobbyists don’t want that. Their whole world is crashing down and there is nothing they can do about it except pray that they themselves are not caught.
That’s why both Dems and Pubs are scared. The house of cards, the charade that their job is tough and no one else can do it is being shattered.
But isn’t this what the dems wanted? Transparency? The most transparent president ever, 0bama, right?
The Dems are sick fucks, only interested in retaining power at our expense but it’s over for them, they cried wolf too many times now, we’re on to their game. The Pubs will get their 60 vote majority in the Senate this next election.
mooby is right. MAGA is the end of fucked up freaks telling us how to live. Back to the shadows you monsters. Do a line smoke a bowl have a drink. America is back.
I’ll die before I vote for a democrat
U.F. – kind regards.
Let’s hope Donald can get a handle on the secret police before anything else happens.
This is all way too bizarre for the United States of America. Sad!
I’m saying the odds by now have to be near 50/50 that Trump does not survive 2017. He will be taken out before he uncovers much of what is going on.
Jesus Christ. Why do good people always assume some fucked up con is reality. The filth and scum are seeing sunlight for the first time in decades. The faces of traitor pawns have been melting down. That is fucking fact not myth. The Faces. Decent band.
Have you guys climaxed yet with all the Obama fantasy talk? The President cannot authorize a FISA wiretap. If a FISA was granted by FISA court to FBI, then there is probable cause that someone working at Trump is a foreign agent. So either Trump is a fuckin liar (yes) or a member of his inner circle is a traitor (likely). We true Americans call this a win-win.