Sunday, March 05, 2017 8:28:33 PM
Conspiracy theorist in chief?
.. remember Cillizza was one of your crowd's favorite anti-Clinton mudslingers .. he knows Trump much better ..
Former president Barack Obama greets President Trump at his inauguration on Jan. 20. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
By Chris Cillizza Reporter March 5 at 3:33 PM
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Comey’s request is sure to raise eyebrows in light of his actions last year in the bureau’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server.
Last July he held a news conference — without telling the Justice Department what he would say — to announce that the bureau had concluded Clinton did not commit a prosecutable offense. Then, 11 days before the election, Comey wrote Congress despite warnings from senior Justice officials that doing so would violate department policy and said the FBI was examining new emails that had come to light. Nothing came of the bureau’s additional review, but Comey took heat for his actions, which Democrats say influenced the outcome of the election.
It is not clear why Comey, who is the senior-most law enforcement officer who has been overseeing the FBI investigation from its inception in the Obama administration, did not himself issue a statement to refute Trump’s claims. Nor is it clear to whom he made his request. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself last week from all investigative matters related to the Trump campaign and any potential Russia links. The acting Deputy Attorney General, Dana Boente, a career federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, is now overseeing the probe.
Trump's tweets early Saturday may have been prompted by the comments of a conservative radio host, which were summarized in an article on the conservative website Breitbart. The Breitbart story had been circulating among Trump's senior aides on Friday.
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Former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday that “there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign,” adding that he would “absolutely” have been aware if there had been.
Here’s the thing: If you are going to say there is a grand conspiracy that only you and a handful of others see, you need to offer a step-by-step explanation to the broader public to show why you’re right.
And that goes double when you have shown a penchant for embracing conspiracy theories — Obama wasn’t born in the United States, Sen. Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Muslims were cheering on rooftops in New Jersey after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and so on and so forth.
The ball is in Trump’s court. Short of convincing evidence to back up the wiretapping claims, the conspiracy-theory candidate will have transformed into the conspiracy-theory president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conspiracy-theorist-in-chief/2017/03/05/b278e6a6-01da-11e7-a391-651727e77fc0_story.html?utm_term=.1bf67dfbecf6
Your Trump is acting more bonkers than usual as he shifts into frantic in the extreme mode.
.. remember Cillizza was one of your crowd's favorite anti-Clinton mudslingers .. he knows Trump much better ..
Former president Barack Obama greets President Trump at his inauguration on Jan. 20. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
By Chris Cillizza Reporter March 5 at 3:33 PM
[...]
Comey’s request is sure to raise eyebrows in light of his actions last year in the bureau’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server.
Last July he held a news conference — without telling the Justice Department what he would say — to announce that the bureau had concluded Clinton did not commit a prosecutable offense. Then, 11 days before the election, Comey wrote Congress despite warnings from senior Justice officials that doing so would violate department policy and said the FBI was examining new emails that had come to light. Nothing came of the bureau’s additional review, but Comey took heat for his actions, which Democrats say influenced the outcome of the election.
It is not clear why Comey, who is the senior-most law enforcement officer who has been overseeing the FBI investigation from its inception in the Obama administration, did not himself issue a statement to refute Trump’s claims. Nor is it clear to whom he made his request. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself last week from all investigative matters related to the Trump campaign and any potential Russia links. The acting Deputy Attorney General, Dana Boente, a career federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, is now overseeing the probe.
Trump's tweets early Saturday may have been prompted by the comments of a conservative radio host, which were summarized in an article on the conservative website Breitbart. The Breitbart story had been circulating among Trump's senior aides on Friday.
[...]
Former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday that “there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign,” adding that he would “absolutely” have been aware if there had been.
Here’s the thing: If you are going to say there is a grand conspiracy that only you and a handful of others see, you need to offer a step-by-step explanation to the broader public to show why you’re right.
And that goes double when you have shown a penchant for embracing conspiracy theories — Obama wasn’t born in the United States, Sen. Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Muslims were cheering on rooftops in New Jersey after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and so on and so forth.
The ball is in Trump’s court. Short of convincing evidence to back up the wiretapping claims, the conspiracy-theory candidate will have transformed into the conspiracy-theory president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conspiracy-theorist-in-chief/2017/03/05/b278e6a6-01da-11e7-a391-651727e77fc0_story.html?utm_term=.1bf67dfbecf6
Your Trump is acting more bonkers than usual as he shifts into frantic in the extreme mode.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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