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One thing I've noticed about assholes and villains over a long period of time is that they all excel and accusing others of the same stupid **** which they themselves habitually perpetrate.

And what blather doesn't state is that Levin's sources are all LIBERAL SLANTED purveyors of propaganda. So it's either more fake news and there's nothing there...Or Obama is the ******* sleeze ball we always thought he was.

Like Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Eisenhower, Clinton, Ford, Kennedy, Obama, ... ?

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Like Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Eisenhower, Clinton, Ford, Kennedy, Obama, ... ?

In the case of Nixon, what we observe is that the Republicans are willing to take out their own trash once in a while, if circumstances warrant it. Democrats never do that, they just circle the wagons.

uckabee Sanders told Raddatz that conservative media aren’t the only outlets that have reported on possible surveillance as part of the investigation into contacts between Trump associates and Russia during the campaign.

"The New York Times, BBC, have also talked about and reported on the potential of this having had happened. I think the bigger thing is, ‘Let's find out. Let’s have an investigation.’ If they’re going to investigate Russia ties, let’s include this as part of it,” she said.

Among Republicans, a majority feel Congress can handle the investigation, but a sizable 43 percent support the call for a special prosecutor, as do majorities of Democrats (82 percent) and independents (67 percent). Overall, the poll finds that 65 percent would rather see a special prosecutor handle the investigation, while 32 percent think Congress is capable of handling it.

What’s the one clear, identifiable source behind those reports, the place the buck stops in terms of drawing national attention to the unfounded idea that the Obama administration illegally targeted Donald Trump’s phones during the 2016 campaign? Simple.

Donald Trump is the source of that claim.

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos called out deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ false claim that reporting in mainstream news outlets, such as The New York Times and BBC, substantiated President Donald Trump's false assertion that former President Barack Obama ordered that Trump Tower be wiretapped during the 2016 campaign. Sanders first made the suggestion on the March 5 edition of ABC's This Week, saying those outlets "have also talked about it and reported on the potential of this having had happened." On the March 6 edition ABC's Good Morning America, Sanders repeated her claim that "the wiretapping has been discussed in The New York Times, BBC, Fox News." Stephanopoulos slammed her claim, noting that "every single article you just mentioned does not back up the president's claim that President Obama had him wiretapped." Stephanopoulos added, "One of them, based on anonymous sources, says there might have been a court ordered FISA wiretap. That has been denied by the former director of national intelligence, James Clapper." Additionally, Stephanopoulos pointed out that there is "a world of difference between an illegal wiretap ordered by a president and court-ordered wiretap approved by a federal judge." As the Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog explained, "No article says that Obama requested the order or that it resulted in the tapping of Trump's phone lines." Similarly, PolitiFact wrote, “If the basis of Trump’s comment is media reports, he doesn’t have a case,” rating Sanders’ claim "false." From the March 6 edition of ABC’s Good Morning America:

Why does Trump think his phones were tapped? An investigation.

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What’s the one clear, identifiable source behind those reports, the place the buck stops in terms of drawing national attention to the unfounded idea that the Obama administration illegally targeted Donald Trump’s phones during the 2016 campaign? Simple.

Donald Trump is the source of that claim.

Could a lawyer look into this? Just how low had Obama stooped to tap Trump’s phones “during the very sacred election process” (that Trump consistently derided as rigged)?

Figured you would be proud to have a president of the US make false allegation against his predecessor to deflect from information concerning Trump campaign officials and Russia, or just Russian interference with US elections.

Obama might then have a case for libel.

...Comey’s extraordinary request underscores the degree to which the chief executive really is not leading the executive branch (including the intelligence community) in a meaningful way. Trump’s compulsion to destroy any source of damaging facts has propelled him into a war with the responsible media, with critics, with the previous administration and with the intelligence community. They all represent a threat to his ego, to his desire to be the sole source of information that can excuse away his aberrant behavior and rhetoric. He demeans, slanders and denigrates his own intelligence community; no doubt infuriated with his prevaricating and attacks on their integrity, leakers (whether in the White House, the bureaucracy or the intelligence community) retaliate by exposing his falsehoods.

The episode also highlights how emotionally out of control Trump is. He lashes out with tweets, rails at aides and vilifies the media. This is not a rational person exercising good judgment...

Fake news announced by the President of the U.S.A you say. Interesting.