The mythological "spygate" (aided of course by his equally despicable gang of Anti-Constitution collaborators on Capitol Hill):
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/us/p ... paign.htmlTrump Repeats Unconfirmed Claims of Campaign Spying
WASHINGTON — President Trump accused federal investigators on Wednesday of using a spy inside his campaign, repeating unconfirmed claims and saying it could be one of the “biggest political scandals in history,” as administration officials bowed to political pressure to change plans to share information about the informant with Congress.
In a series of Twitter posts early Wednesday about the continuing Russia investigation, Mr. Trump briefly departed from his previous language about the possibility that the government deployed a spy inside his presidential campaign. Instead, he stated it as fact.
“Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State,” he wrote. “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!”
Hours later, Mr. Trump slightly backed off, telling reporters, “I hope it’s not true, but it looks like it is.”
But the president has decidedly joined his allies in Congress in an offensive against the Justice Department, calling for law enforcement officials to share documents related to an informant who approached several of his campaign advisers who had been in contact with suspected Russian agents. The use of the informant was to glean information about what the aides knew about the Russian efforts to hack into Democratic emails — not to spy on Mr. Trump’s campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
Top intelligence and law enforcement officials had been scheduled to meet Thursday with only Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, purportedly to share the highly classified information about the informant that the lawmakers have demanded.
But after senators from both parties, including the majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, worked behind the scenes, the administration scheduled a second meeting to share the delicate information with the so-called Gang of Eight party leadership on Thursday afternoon.
The group is made up of the Republican and Democratic leaders of both chambers and the top members of the intelligence committees, and is typically the venue through which the government’s most sensitive secrets are shared with Congress.
Participants in the meetings were expected to include Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director; Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general; and Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, along with other F.B.I. and Justice Department officials.
This is the latest installment in the completely fanciful, cooked up story of some imagined "deep state plot" to thwart the campaign of Donald Trump...
When of course all the available evidence shows the exact opposite...
That the FBI, the Justice Department, and the the Obama Administration itself, bent over backwards to avoid any public revelations that could be damaging to Trump regarding it's investigation, (based on the strongest possible evidence, as we now know) into possible Russian contacts with high-ranking members of the Trump campaign...
Trump's transparently cynical claim that there was some political motivation behind this designed to undermine his campaign is rendered self-evidently ludicrous by the fact that not one word about this investigation was ever leaked to the press during the campaign. What's the "argument" here? That this was politically motivated, but then for some reason no political use was made of it?
On the contrary, the record clearly shows that everything that came publicly from the FBI and the Justice Department during the campaign was damaging to Hillary Clinton NOT Donald Trump...
Andrew McCabe was fired for not being honest with FBI investigators about a leak to a WSJ reporter that was damaging to Hillary Clinton...
The famous Rosenstein Memo (that Trump initially claimed was the basis for firing James Comey before admitting on national television that the real motive was to obstruct justice in the Russia investigation) was devoted exclusively to criticizing Comey for actions he took during the campaign that were damaging to Hillary Clinton NOT Donald Trump...
The Justice Dept. IG report that was made public that found that Clinton's private email server was unauthorized, (contrary to her repeated claims) obviously was damaging to Clinton, not Trump...
Believe me, I'm not pointing all this out because I'm joining the "poor, poor, Hillary" chorus...
Far from it. I said it before, and I'm happy to repeat it; Hillary Clinton has no one but herself to blame for all the political damage that came to her as a result of her arrogant decision to store classified material on an unauthorized private email server. No unauthorized server, none of that happens; full stop.
I'm pointing it out because facts matter, and the facts show, (even though I hold Hillary ultimately responsible for it) that everything that came from the FBI during the campaign was damaging to her campaign, and nothing damaging to the Trump campaign ever came from the FBI.
Those are the proven, established facts.
