yet you're ignoring the reality of the situation .. Trump in vomiting out that rotten assertion is simply continuing his strategy to crap on ..
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Donald Trump and the Enemies of the American People .. bit .. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, makes the point that autocrats from Chávez to Erdogan, Sisi to Mugabe, all follow a general pattern. They attack and threaten the press with deliberate and ominous intensity; the press, in turn, adopts a more oppositional tone and role. “And then that paves the way for the autocrat’s next move,” Simon told me. “Popular support for the media dwindles and the leader starts instituting restrictions. It’s an old strategy.” Simon pointed to Trump’s lack of originality, recalling that both Néstor Kirchner, of Argentina, and Tabaré Ramón Vázquez, of Uruguay, referred to the press as the “unelected political opposition.” And, as Simon has written .. http://www.cjr.org/opinion/trump-chavez-media.php , it was the late Hugo Chávez who first mastered Twitter as a way of bypassing the media and providing his supporters with alternative facts. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128891812
'He's Going to Continue to Create Chaos' [...] McAdams: I think it’s really important to try to understand who the president is. And when you learn that there isn’t much behind the mask except for these narcissistic goals and authoritarian values, that’s important to learn, and it helps you predict what kind of president he is going to be. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128249518
[img] The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.
Mr. Comey made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter. Mr. Comey has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down Mr. Trump’s claim because there is no evidence to support it and it insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said.[/img]
Mind you, James Comey certainly has personal experience in letting the public know about FBI investigations involving presidential candidates, so it's not clear why he's begging Justice to reject Trump's story when he could just as easily pipe up and do it himself. Perhaps it didn't work out for him that last time, or perhaps our various federal agencies are engaged in negotiations as to which one of them will bear the brunt of the so-called president's wrath when they publicly note that Florida Man is, in fact, making up stories.
Hey, remember when Donald Trump read a speech off a screen and pundits fell over themselves asking whether or not this was, at long last, the moment the mean-spirited, fact-averse bungler and racist propagandist turned presidential? It seems so long ago. Days, even.
.. 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.
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