The White House on Friday seized on revelations that the FBI during the 2016 campaign sent an undercover investigator to meet with an aide to then-candidate Donald Trump, with the president calling the news “bigger than Watergate.”
Trump praised one of his most frequent media foes, The New York Times, for its reporting, while his reelection campaign lit into investigators and Vice President Mike Pence called the bureau’s actions “very troubling.”
“Finally, Mainstream Media is getting involved – too ‘hot’ to avoid,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Pulitzer Prize anyone? The New York Times, on front page (finally), ‘Details effort to spy on Trump Campaign.’ @foxandfriends This is bigger than WATERGATE, but the reverse!”
At the heart of Trump’s claim is a Times report out Thursday that a woman, sent by the FBI, identified herself as an assistant to a Cambridge researcher when she met in London in 2016 with Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, who later pleaded guilty to making false statements to the bureau. The woman was sent as part of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
The revelation that the bureau sent someone undercover to meet with Papadopoulos has fueled the president’s and his allies’ insistence that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation was politically motivated and that the Trump 2016 campaign was under inappropriate surveillance.
That investigation, however, was reportedly opened after Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that Russians had offered to help Trump’s campaign, before the aide met the undercover woman.
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Trump called revelations that the FBI sent an undercover investigator to meet with an aide to his 2016 campaign "bigger than Watergate" https://t.co/2cjWR8tHxv
— POLITICO (@politico) May 3, 2019
When you're shooting your mouth off to foreign diplomats about the neat stuff you're going to get from Russia, it's also called "doing their job" https://t.co/O9cj45NiA4
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 3, 2019
The attempt to make G Pap look like the innocent in all this is quite remarkable
He’s an over the top Inspector Clouseau/Wil E Coyote/Fredo Corleone/Spies Like Us mashup
— Cheif Hostage Negotiator, USA! (@rewegreatyet) May 3, 2019
Considering what Mueller found and how many were indicted investigating the Russian interference in our election I would say that the government had a duty to investigate. That’s not spying. It’s doing their job and protecting the United States of America.
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