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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]The tweets stem from an article Trump read on Breitbart.

The president seems to be admitting that he was the personal target of a government investigation into whether he was colluding with a hostile power;

There's no illegality by the Obama administration, since any wiretaps were approved by FISA courts, or conversations were picked up by signal intelligence collection. [/quote]

Again, I want to raise the same issues as my earlier post:

1) The Breitbart article sourced the FISA warrant allegations to Louise Mensch. As far as I know, nobody other than Mensch has reported that FISA warrants were issued;

2) Therefore, if Trump is relying on Breitbart/Mensch, he may be incorrect about wire taps.

It is interesting that both people on the left and people on the right are embracing Mensch's theories, though for separate reasons. The left wants to highlight FISA warrants as evidence of Trump campaign wrong-doing whereas the right wants to use them to illustrate government (i.e. Obama) overreach. But, neither group is putting much effort into confirming Mensch's reporting which I for one don't have much faith in.
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I find Mensch's writing hard to follow, so I'm not putting much into it.

What's more interesting to me is Trump's reaction to reports that he's involved with the Russians.  If there's nothing there, he'd be more forthcoming with his financial dealings and doing everything he could to distance himself from people and actions that would compromise his administration.  Instead, he's entrenched and digging in deeper, calling it fake news and a witch hunt.

Sessions' banana-peel slip was also an indication there's something going on.  So easy to say he'd met with the ambassador in his role as senator, but he had reason to pretend he hadn't.[/quote]

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