ISTR reading speculation that Trump, or at least a senior member of his staff, called Nunes and told him to find support for Trump’s claims. We know that somebody called him that night, would be interesting to find out who.
I wouldnt be surprised. People get their communications monitored all the time.
Also consider the democrats spent $1.5 billion on Hillarys campaign. They wanted her to win no matter what.
This is what we call “projecting”.
Here’s my wild-eyed speculation.
The President texted/emailed Nunes. Nunes bailed on his ride, went to see the Pres. Saw whatever bullshit Trump found on Reddit, left.
Next day, wakes up thinking “holy hell, I fucked up now.” Panics. seriously panics. Calls presser, babbles. Goes to White House, they are like “wtf? Leave.” Panics more, calls a second presser, babbles even more. Starts cancelling shit, changing his story (still doing it today, btw), all the classic signs of organization man in a panic.
Why? Probably because on Tuesday Nunes hadn’t seen the “non-circumstantial evidence”, but on Wednesday, he did and realized his Tuesday actions left him in a world of suspicious hurt. (Or maybe he learned that Flynn is talking to FBI, to same effect.)
Not to the point of colluding with agents of the ex-USSR, they didn’t.
I must assume that these are two separate thoughts that have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
If they are related, would you care to make the connection for this humble reader?
The New York Times is now reporting that two White House officials were the source of the classified documents that Nunes reviewed. One of them is a former Nunes staffer, the other was a Flynn protege.
Basically, the Flynn protege began started searching through intelligence reports after Trump’s wiretapppppping tweet. According to the Times, he came across intercepts of foreign officials talking among themselves “about how they were trying to develop contacts within Mr. Trump’s family and inner circle in advance of his inauguration.”
This news report gives no credence to the conspiracy theory that under Obama, there was some kind of backdoor collection on the conversations of and among Trump and his advisers. I’m sure Okrahoma will be disappointed.
I doubt it. His definition of “under surveillance” seems to include having your name released to other government agencies. So, if Russians were talking about Trump’s minions, and that information was picked up and told to anyone, then Trump’s minions were under surveillance according to Okrahoma, from what I can tell. Why, it’s practically Watergate! This time, perpetrated by a bad (or sick) man. Sad!
*The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
GO!
I don’t care how.
You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
Devin G. Nunes, will you please go now!*
We still have only the word of Nunes that any names were released. Again: if he has such a bombshell, why wait for others to come forward?
The other day I called a contractor about some siding.
Also consider that Opening Day for baseball is almost here. Go White Sox.
So… recent polling by CBS found that 74% of Republicans think it likely or somewhat likely that Obama wiretapped Trump during the campaign.
The only thing they have to go off is Trump saying so - no evidence is forthcoming, the intelligence community has made it clear this didn’t happen, and if there was evidence, Trump could have easily provided it.
74%.
Next person to feed me some bullshit line about the marketplace of ideas gets punched.
Even after Trump admitted in a press conference that he only said it because Judge Napolitano said it on FoxNews. That was the entirety of the reasoning offered.
For context, the Judge is also a 9/11 Truther and believes that the government lied about the Kennedy assassination. A “great legal mind” there, as the President characterized it.
Well don’t forget the logic of “Trump can’t be that bad; after all, he won the election” (which seriously is the only defence Trump supporters seem to give after I point out all the times he’s lied or said or done something incredibly immature and dangerous).
74% of Pubs believe it = proof
Shoot, wrong forum. Ignore this post.
Evelyn Farkas (Obama’s Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense) appeared on MSNBC and openly admitted that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.
Not fair. He’s quoting from the obviously non-partisan and totally impartial Conservative Treehouse, while your “rebuttal” comes from the ComSymps over at Snopes.
I simply posted the first link available that had the MSNBC clip. There were several others but that one came up first on Google.
I suppose I should have looked on YouTube first and posted a link without any “conservative” wrapping, so to speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCMF94FX530
It doesn’t invalidate the fact that your information was incorrect.