Obamagate

[Tassman]

Again let's ignore how Hillary's campaign helped to popularize that racially-based whopper.

[Mountain Man]

Source: CNN

Exclusive: US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politi...ans/index.html

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Source: Breitbart

Trump Vindicated: Report Says Obama Government Wiretapped Trump Campaignhttp://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...rump-campaign/

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[rogue06]

Yeah he did and he deserves all the criticism he gets for it. OTOH hypocrites like you want to exonerate Hillary and her cronies for how they pushed that same falsehood.

[seer]

Trump Vindicated: Report Says Obama Government Wiretapped Trump Campaign

So Trump was right, they were being Wiretapped. Where are all the leftists that were claiming that Trump was full of it?

[Darth Executor]

lol obama was the first birther so who cares. he shouldn't lie about himself if he doesn't want others to believe that lie

[Starlight]

So Trump was right, they were being Wiretapped.

Trump wasn't being wiretapped. It had nothing to do with his presidential campaign.

Paul Manafort was being wiretapped over the course of years because of his close association with Russian state interests.

[seer]

Trump wasn't being wiretapped. It had nothing to do with his presidential campaign.

Paul Manafort was being wiretapped over the course of years because of his close association with Russian state interests.

But Manafort was part of the presidential campaign, and he lived in Trump Tower. The fact is, no matter how you try and parse it, Trump was correct.

[Mountain Man]

Trump wasn't being wiretapped. It had nothing to do with his presidential campaign.

Paul Manafort was being wiretapped over the course of years because of his close association with Russian state interests.

Read the report, dumbo. The original investigation into Manafort was ended due to lack of evidence, but then Obama's Justice Department suddenly got interested in him again around the time he started working for Trump. What a coincidence! But there's nothing suspicious about it, right? Just as there's nothing suspicious about Susan Rice explicitly unmasking the names of Trump's associates in classified documents and leaking them to her allies in Washington.

[Sea of red]

Actually, the CIA and British were listening in on suspected Russian spies and ran across interceptions of Trump campaign officials talking turkey with Russian nationals.

Since the CIA can not do surveillance of US citizens domestically, the matter was handed over to the FBI which presented the evidence to a FISA court, where a judge agreed there was probable cause a criminal matter might be unfolding.

Perfectly legal procedure.

[Tassman]

But Manafort was part of the presidential campaign,

and he lived in Trump Tower. The fact is, no matter how you try and parse it, Trump was correct.

[JimL]

But Manafort was part of the presidential campaign, and he lived in Trump Tower. The fact is, no matter how you try and parse it, Trump was correct.

Manafort was under investigation long before he was even in the Trump campaign and the fact that he was being wiretapped had nothing to do with Trump or Trump tower even if Trump was picked up in those communications with Manafort. Also, don't you ever ask yourself how and why it was that P. Manafort, someone with known ties to russia and russian backed Ukraine leadership, ended up running the Trump campaign?

[Starlight]

The fact is, no matter how you try and parse it, Trump was correct.

Trump says 1) Obama 2) illegally 3) tapped "his" wires at Trump Tower.
Story says 1) the FBI 2) legally 3) tapped Manafort's phone.

[Tassman]

Manafort was under investigation long before he was even in the Trump campaign and the fact that he was being wiretapped had nothing to do with Trump or Trump tower even if Trump was picked up in those communications with Manafort. Also, don't you ever ask yourself how and why it was that P. Manafort, someone with known ties to russia and russian backed Ukraine leadership, ended up running the Trump campaign?

[Starlight]

So, what is it with Trump and Russia?

It's almost like he's got a multi-decade history of laundering money for Russian oligarchs.

[Zymologist]

LOL, those stupid conservatives and their crazy conspiracy theories. Will they ever realize that the real threat is white supremacist Nazi dictator Trump and Putin, his master?