Thanks to the Tweeter In Chief, the internet is abuzz today with talk of wiretapping, McCarthyism, FISA courts and Russian spying. The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration. Clouded up, is the possibility the United States government might have monitored the Trump campaign and any contact it had with the Russian government.
There are several points I want to touch on on this fiasco:
1. Is it plausible to believe or even consider the Obama administration weaponized the power of the federal government against their political opponents? Yes. We know this because the IRS targeted conservative groups for higher scrutiny when applying for tax-exempt status…….
2. Is there any evidence Donald Trump’s phones were tapped in Trump Tower during the campaign? No. Trump gets himself into trouble with such wild accusations……
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Still, the accusation by Trump even had his staff scratching their heads.
3. Did Paul Ryan confirm Trump’s charge in his interview with Fox News reporter Bret Baier? No, not at all……
Going off the rails the way Trump so often does harms him more than it helps him. Rather the focus being whether or not a FISA warrant was issued at all, the media gets to spend their time telling everybody Trump made an accusation without evidence. Sanchez makes the point clear as well:
In short, both Breitbart and Trump have advanced claims far more dramatic than anything the public evidence can support. That said, intelligence monitoring—whether direct or indirect—of persons connected with a presidential campaign inherently carries a high risk of abuse, and as Congress moves to launch its own inquiries into the Trump campaign’s Russian ties, it would be entirely appropriate to further scrutinize both the FBI’s initial surveillance and applications and the surveillance that was ultimately conducted for any signs of impropriety.
In other words: Wait and see.
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