[Free Beacon] Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday it is possible that President Donald Trump was captured in audio as part of the wiretap of his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
Host Don Lemon interviewed Clapper about the FBI wiretap that was put in place during the Obama administration to listen to Manafort as part of the investigation into ties between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives.
Trump has claimed that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City when he was president. CNN reported this week that Manafort was wiretapped, though the report did not indicate that Trump himself was under surveillance. CNN said it was unclear whether the Manafort surveillance took place at Trump Tower.
Clapper, who said in March that he had no knowledge of any court orders to wiretap Trump or Trump Tower, stood by his comments on Wednesday, noting he could only refer to them and media reports. He added that he has no knowledge of any secret order from the court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to wiretap Manafort.
"Is it possible the president was picked up in a conversation with Paul Manafort?" Lemon then asked.
"It's certainly conceivable," Clapper said.
"Is it likely?" Lemon asked.
"I can't say," Clapper said. "I wouldn't want to go there but I will say it's possible."
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Clapper and the Deep State attempting to pick up the turd from the clean end.
I have prepared a DRAFT 'Deep State' media statement (yes, NYT will be excellent) on the topic which can be timed for release within in the next 30-60-90 days:
DRAFT: "As has been reported previously, the Intelligence Community was well aware of the 'incidental collection' involving then candidate Trump. Measures to mask his identity were rigorously undertaken."
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But they did not? Oh and now Trump must have been unmasked for Clapper to know. Now he violated the law telling the public. So now we know Manafort was not a simple person talking to the wrong person, he was directly targeted, for an extended period of time. And what about Clapper and Susan Rice and their lies???
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And what about Clapper and Susan Rice and their lies???
Good thing we're not holding our breaths waiting for prosecutions.
[Breitbart] Sen. Luther Strange’s (R-AL) swamp pal, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), is set to receive more money each year from Alabama taxpayers from the sweetheart deal in an Alabama retail development arranged by a law firm that is a big donor to Strange’s Senate campaign than he receives from his salary as a United States senator.
Under the terms of that sweetheart deal signed off on by the Mobile City Council and the Mobile County Commission, Corker, as a 13 percent owner of McGowin Park Incentive, LLC, a Delaware Corporation, receives a prorated split of that entity’s hefty sales tax rebate from retail purchases made at stores in McGowin Park retail center in Mobile Alabama. The center is a huge development opened in 2015 of more than 24 stores, including "Dick’s Sporting Goods, Field & Stream, HomeGoods, Ross Dress for Less, Hobby Lobby, Best Buy, Old Navy, Petco, Ashley Furniture HomeStore and Dollar Tree," as one publication noted, strategically located right off heavily traveled I-65.
That rebate is substantial; 28 percent of all city sales tax collected and 30 percent of all county sales tax collected from stores in the center is paid out to McGowin Park Incentive, LLC, in two securities known as City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013 and Mobile County Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013.
Corker received $40,459 in 2015 and $108,682 in income from City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013, and Mobile County Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013, according to financial reports he filed with the United States Senate. He is scheduled to receive $155,500 in income from those warrants in 2017; $168,808 in 2018; $192,000 in 2019; and $192,000 a year for the next 15-and-a-half years.
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How else can they become multi-millionaires whilst making less than $200k per year in salary as a U.S. Congressman? And people wonder why Lois Learner is not in jail and IRS Director John Koskinen still has a job.
h/t instapundit
Vladimir Putin did not hack the election. Barack Obama did.
Donald Trump said earlier this year that the Obama Administration wiretapped his campaign. "Like I’d want to hear more from that fool?" President Obama scoffed.
But CNN reported on Monday, "US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election.... The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump."
The network labeled their story an exclusive. But, in fact, Breitbart, radio host Mark Levin, the realDonaldTrump Twitter account, and numerous other sources reported the wiretapping more than six months ago.
...The all-smoke-no-fire Russia investigation looks increasingly like a smoke screen aimed to put out a very different fire. Rather than an investigation into malfeasance by the Trump campaign, does the Robert Mueller inquiry serve as a clean-up operation to justify Obama administration malfeasance? The bugging of the opposition party’s presidential campaign, at least when done by Republicans, ranks not only as criminal but as the biggest political scandal in American history.
Richard Nixon’s henchmen wore surgical gloves to avoid leaving clues for law enforcement. Barack Obama’s henchmen were law enforcement. This makes Obama worse, not better, than Nixon. At least Nixon’s plumbers possessed the decency to leave their skullduggery to lock pickers and burglars. Obama used law enforcement for opposition research. In Banana Republics, the cops double as the criminals. The unprecedented use of the Justice Department to commit injustice marks a sad moment for the republic. It is Watergate on steroids.
#2
Nothing will come of this. The media does not want this story to continue and the GOP is perfectly fine with this as it happened to Trump; not the GOP.
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[Free Beacon] Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday it is possible that President Donald Trump was captured in audio as part of the wiretap of his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
