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Obama’s Spying on Trump is Looking Worse Than Anything Nixon Could Have Dreamed Up

There are two obvious differences between Watergate and the Obama administration’s infiltration. The Watergate burglars were arrested in flagrante delicto, and their wiretaps never functioned. And neither the FBI nor the CIA fully cooperated with the post-election cover-up.

That’s quite a contrast with the Obama law enforcement and intelligence appointees’ promotion of Christopher Steele’s Clinton campaign-financed dodgy dossier and feeding the mainstream media’s insatiable hunger for Russia collusion stories.

Life-hating gun zealots are sociopathically unable to tell what others are feeling.

Don't believe the hype that Trump and his cronies would welcome impeachment, supposedly because it would improve his position. They are terrified about what it would do to his "brand".

Obama is actually pretty accurate in that statement..

Guns are far too available, too easily, too quickly, as witness the two handguns the Virginia shooter purchased legally before he went out and killed a dozen people.

And semi--auto rifles with bump stocks are in effect machine guns.

Obama knows, Trump blows.

Furious reaction to accurate advertisement calling out Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Holocaust lies

12000 or so victims of violyions of tyheir civl rights by gun

Spare me your phony outrage against civil liberties violations.

You're on the side of death, 12000 or so victims of violations of yheir civl rights by gun violence every year and you oppose anything to lessen that toll.

You're clearly on the side of death. You and your ilk are life-haters, no way around it.

Notice the commonality?

President Donald Trump on Monday called for a boycott of AT&T to force "big changes" at subsidiary CNN, which Trump often accuses of biased and negative coverage of his administration.

"I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News!" the president tweeted from the U.K., just as he began a state visit, misspelling "stopped."

subsidiary CNN, which Trump often accuses of biased and negative coverage of his administration.

Trump insults London mayor on UK state visit

Donald Trump has arrived in the UK for a delayed state visit and set a combative tone by criticising the London mayor as his plane landed.

After Air Force One touched down at Stansted, the US president and his wife, Melania, were greeted by the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, one of the contenders in the Conservative leadership race.

Trump was seen chatting with Hunt for a minute and occasionally patting him on the back.

Before landing, Trump described Sadiq Khan as “a stone cold loser” after the London mayor compared him to a 20th-century fascist.

Trump repeated his criticism about Khan to Hunt as they spoke on the tarmac, said the foreign secretary, who told BBC News: “I said to him that we were going to put on a great show for him, because America is our closest ally.

“And he mentioned to me some of his very strong views about the mayor of London. What he said to me was consistent with what was in his tweet.”

Hunt added: “I agree with him that it is totally inappropriate for the Labour party to be boycotting this incredibly important visit. This is the president of the United States.”

Khan’s spokesman said “childish insults” should be “beneath the president of the United States”.

Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets to demonstrate against the visit. As he waited to greet Trump, Hunt was distinctly muted in his welcome, declining twice to disagree with a description of the US president’s policies as “toxic and dangerous”.

Asked about the remarks by the bishop of Liverpool, Paul Bayes, Hunt told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “People will have their own views about President Trump’s politics. He’s very controversial.”

Asked again whether he disputed Bayes’ description, Hunt said: “I don’t pretend that I personally agree with Donald Trump on everything. But he’s also president of our most important ally. He’s coming here to celebrate what is the most important alliance in history.”

The foreign secretary indicated Trump and Theresa May might not have a one-to-one discussion during meetings on Tuesday, seen as an indication of the imminently departing prime minister’s status.

“He’s going to sit down with Theresa May in a meeting which I will be at, and he may well sit down with her one to one, as often happens, before or after those meetings,” Hunt said.

Before his flight to the UK, Trump praised Hunt’s main rival, Boris Johnson, and the Brexit party leader, Nigel Farage, and denied making “bad” comments about the Duchess of Sussex.

The US president said he expected his three-day visit to be “very important” and “very interesting”.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday before boarding the Marine One helicopter, Trump was asked if he planned to meet Johnson during the trip.

“Well, I think I may meet with him. He’s been a friend of mine. He’s been very nice. I have a very good relationship with him,” he said of the Tory leadership hopeful.

“I have a very good relationship with Nigel Farage, with many people over there [in the UK], and we’ll see what happens. I may meet with him. They want to meet. We’ll see what happens.”

Before his arrival, the US president had already caused considerable political turbulence with comments on the Conservative leadership race, Brexit and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

Trump said he did not call Meghan nasty, despite audio recordings in which he said “I didn’t know she was nasty” when he was told she had said she would leave the US if he won the 2016 election.

Asked at the White House on Sunday evening if he was willing to apologise to the royal family, or clarify his comments, Trump replied: “No, I made no bad comment. Thank you.”

He had called on Britain to leave the EU without a deal if Brussels refused to meet its demands, and urged the government to send Farage into the negotiations.

The controversy was further exacerbated on Sunday when the US ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, suggested the NHS would be on the table in post-Brexit trade talks with Washington.

Addressing the prospect of a transatlantic trade deal, Trump said: “[We’re] going to the UK. I think it’ll be very important. It certainly will be very interesting. There’s a lot going on in the UK. And I’m sure it’s going to work out very well for them.

“As you know, they want to do trade with the United States, and I think there’s an opportunity for a very big trade deal at some point in the near future. And we’ll see how that works out.”

The president departed from Joint Base Andrews near Washington DC onboard Air Force One at about 8.45pm local time (1.45am BST).

The Trumps are due to head to Buckingham Palace for a reception with the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.

Prince Harry will also attend a private lunch at the palace, although his wife, Meghan, who is on maternity leave, will be at home with their four-week-old son, Archie.

Trump’s arrival in the capital is due to be followed by a protest through central London on Tuesday, with the “Trump baby” blimp made for his visit last year due to put in an appearance.

On Sunday, Khan described the US president as “just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat” and compared the language he has used to that of the “fascists of the 20th century”.

Asked if he would be willing to meet the London mayor, Trump replied: “No, I don’t think much of him. I think that he’s the twin of [the New York City mayor Bill] de Blasio, except shorter.”