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Liar Liar ‘Pants On Fire’ President Obama Did Not Wiretap Trump Tower!
The FBI is investigating whether the Trump cam- paign colluded with a covert Russian operation to interfere with the election, FBI Direc- tor James Comey told Con- gress Monday — and he refuted the president's base- less claim that his predeces- sor wiretapped his communications.
The FBI director also dealt the president's credibility a blow when he said he "has no information that supports" Trump's allegation from two weeks ago that President Obama ordered surveillance of his communications in Trump Tower during the campaign.
Only courts grant permis- sion for electronic surveil- lance, Comey told
FBI Director James Comey confirmed what we all knew, President Obama did not have Trump Tower wiretapped.
lawmakers, and "no individ- ual in the United States can direct electronic surveillance of anyone."
FBI Head And National Security Leader Demolish Trump’s Attempts To Tweet Away Russian Ties To His Campaign
President Donald Trump began Monday as he has started so many other presidential mornings — by unleashing a blistering Twit- ter attack on critics who sug- gested his 2016 campaign colluded with the Russians.
By the afternoon the di- rector of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, had systemati- cally demolished his argu- ments in a remarkable public takedown of a sitting presi- dent.
Even a close ally of Mr. Trump, Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California and the House Intelligence Committee chairman, conceded that “a gray cloud” of suspicion now hung over the White House by the end of the day’s hear- ings.
The testimony of Mr. Comey and that of Adm. Michael S. Rogers, his Na- tional Security Agency coun- terpart, will distract Mr. Trump’s administration for
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weeks.
But it’s the obsessiveness
and ferocity of Mr. Trump’s pushback mainly on social media against the Russian al- legations that is making an uncertain situation worse.
Mr. Trump’s allies have begun to wonder if his need for self-expression will ex- ceed his instinct for self- preservation.
FBI Wiretapped Russian Gambling Ring Headquartered At Trump Tower: Report
The Feds were monitoring
Russian activity at Trump Tower — but it was years be- fore President Trump ever ran for office.
The FBI had a court-sanc- tioned warrant from 2011 to 2013 to monitor a Russian crime organization working out of a unit three floors below President Trump’s penthouse, according to an ABC News report.
Listening in on the Rus- sians’ happenings resulted in more than 30 people being indicted in April 2013, with federal agents raiding the Trump Tower apartment. But the mastermind, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, got away and has since fled the United States justice system.
Emergence of the Russ- ian gambling wiretap comes as President Trump claims his own residence at Trump Tower was bugged at the di- rection of President Obama, but the intelligence community says there's no evidence to back that up.
Trump’s Former Campaign Chair Worked For Russian Billionaire
Paul Manafort works for a Russian billionaire.
The White House is dis- tancing itself from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, saying his secret work for a Russian bil- lionaire detailed in an Associ- ated Press report happened
during "the last decade." White House press secre- tary Sean Spicer says noth- ing in Wednesday's AP report references any action by the president, the White House or any Trump administra-
tion official.
Spicer says Trump was
not aware of Manafort's clients from the past decade and there are "no sugges- tions" Manafort did any- thing improper.
Spicer also says former presidential rival Hillary Clinton had her own Russia ties. He says Clinton cam- paign chairman John Podesta sat on the board of a Russian-based energy com- pany and Hillary Clinton was "the face of a failed Rus- sia reset policy.”
President Finding Humor In NFL QB Colin Kaepernick’s Unemployment
Speaking at a rally in Louisville, Kentucky on Mon- day night (March 20), Donald Trump touched on a number of topics and somehow Colin Kaepernick’s name came up.
The president sounded as if he was taking pride in the free agent quarterback’s unemploy- ment.
During the speech, Trump spoke on the fact that NFL owners aren’t signing the 29- year-old out of fear of a heck- ling message from him calling the team out on Twitter.
“They don’t want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump. Do you believe that?” Trump stated.
Reasoning this with the people of Kentucky, he added, “They like it when people actu- ally stand for the American
Donald Trump talked to a crowd about former 49er QB Colin Kapernick.
flag.” This isn’t the first time Trump has gone after Kaepernick since he called the then-presidential candi- date “openly racist.
”At a time during the NFL season when Kaepernick protested social injustice by kneeling during the national anthem, Trump critiqued the
San Francisco 49er quarter- back’s actions in a radio inter- view while he was running for president. “I think it’s person- ally not a good thing. I think it’s a terrible thing,” he said. “And, you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him. Let him try. It won’t happen.”
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