Reports that a federal informant contacted President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign mark a turning point for the so-called “deep state,” Trump claimed Wednesday morning, celebrating the criticism the Justice Department has come under in recent days.
“Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State,” the president wrote on Twitter. “They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before! What goes around, comes around!”
Trump has grown increasingly vocal in recent days regarding the news reports that the FBI’s investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election utilized an informant who somehow contacted the Trump campaign. The president and his allies have characterized this as the Justice Department inserting a spy into the Trump campaign, a move that Trump has said could dwarf any past political scandal.
“SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!” Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday. He lashed out in a subsequent post against former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who appeared on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday, where he suggested that the FBI’s activities had been focused on Russia’s election interference efforts, not the Trump campaign itself. Asked by panelist Joy Behar if Trump should be happy that the bureau was probing the Kremlin’s interference campaign, Clapper said “he should be.”
“’Trump should be happy that the FBI was SPYING on his campaign.’ No, James Clapper, I am not happy,” Trump wrote on Twitter, attributing a quote to the former director of national intelligence that he does not appear to have said. “Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!”
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Trump hammers ‘Criminal Deep State’ over FBI informant https://t.co/rBy48Zzrnk
— POLITICO (@politico) May 23, 2018
SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
The only spies in your campaign were Russian.https://t.co/h18vZKamlC
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 23, 2018
Prediction: At the end, it will turn out that the FBI was only trying to PROTECT the Trump campaign from potential Russian infiltration.
The Trump campaign had too many dumb asses on board like Sam Nunberg, Carter Page, & @DonaldJTrumpJr, who the Russians were trying to play.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) May 23, 2018
And there it is!
Team Trump was expressly warned by the FBI that they were an RIS target.
How odd POTUS never mentions that….https://t.co/0uah6SDJwH
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 23, 2018
I don't want to interrupt conservative cheerleading on judges and deregulation, but is everyone fine with a president of the United States attacking our "Criminal Deep State?" But not to worry. Because today's "conservatives" have decided ideas or words have no consequences.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 23, 2018
If the FBI or the Obama administration was trying to take Trump down, they would have leaked before the election that some of his aides were suspected Russian agents. They didn’t do that, and voters went to the polls not knowing.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) May 23, 2018
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