Donald Trump managed to get “This is
McCarthyism” and “This is Nixon/Watergate” into the same string of tweets as he
reportedly “just found out” that “bad (or sick)” President Obama had tapped his
phones prior to the election.
Trump poured out his claims in a series of tweets that
sought to leap the already high bar of insanity set by his usual statements.
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
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!
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
An hour after spewing off these tweets
— and mixing in the shocking news that the Russian ambassador had visited
the White House during the Obama administration — Trump has provided no
details of this “wire tapping.”
But considering that it’s Donald Trump,
there’s a good chance that “just found out” doesn’t mean it was part of a
briefing from the intelligence community. Trump doesn’t trust those.
Instead, he may well have been sitting at
Mar-a-Lago in his jam jams, reading his favorite source.
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| One of the string of 7 AM Tweets Trump sent out this morning. |
According to Breitbart, those communications
revealed no wrongdoing, which is as trustworthy as any other Breitbart article.
What’s extremely clear is that Trump is
trying to get in front of something and blow smoke at the way the evidence was
collected before the rest of the story tumbles out.
As more and more hidden contacts between the
Trump campaign and Russian officials are revealed,
Trump is throwing out
pictures of very public meetings between the Russian ambassador and Democratic
lawmakers in an attempt to obscure the meetings that were happening with his
team—including at least one meeting that took place in Trump Tower.
Might some of the communications out of
Trump Tower been under observation by intelligence agencies? If not, they
probably should have been.
Trump Tower isn’t just home to Trump and his
real estate “organization.” Paul Manafort, who is under investigation for his
relationship to pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, has lived in Trump Tower for a
decade.
It’s where Felix Sater and the Bayrock are
located.
And it is where Jared Kuschner and Michael
Flynn secretly met with the Russian ambassador.
There are a lot of very good reasons why
some of the communications at Trump Tower should be tapped, including evidence
of money laundering and that email server that at least appeared to be in
communications with a Russian bank.
While Trump’s phone tapping accusations are
just as likely to be sourced from the rantings of right-wing radio as any
verifiable facts, the purpose of tweeting about them is clearly to try and
derail of a cycles of leaks and discoveries that’s showing Trump’s team to be
glued to Russia in a dozen ways.
It may also be a preemptive strike against
more serious information that still hasn’t reached the public.
And to show that Trump is always keeping it
classy, Trump followed up those accusations of wire tapping with this Tweet.
✔@realDonaldTrumpArnold Schwarzenegger isn't voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show8:19 AM - 4 Mar 2017