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Jimbo101

(776 posts) Sun Mar 5, 2017, 03:09 PM Mar 2017

Mark Levin behind Trumps wiretap claim says he cant prove Obama did it

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Radio host Mark Levin, who sent President Donald Trump into a rage on Twitter after floating a conspiracy theory about wiretaps ordered by President Barack Obama, admitted on Sunday that he had no concrete proof that the former president was involved.

On his radio show and in a column for Breitbart, Levin called for an investigation into Obama’s so-called “silent coup” against the new president. Without presenting any proof, Levin alleged that Obama personally ordered wiretaps of Trump associates.

“The evidence is overwhelming,” Levin told Fox News host Pete Hegseth on Sunday. “This is about the Obama administration’s spying.”

Levijn repeating the list of “sources” offered in his Brietbart column as proof that Obama allegedly ordered the wiretapping of Trump’s team. A careful reading of those reports, however, do not back up Levin’s conspiracy theory.

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Mark Levin behind Trumps wiretap claim says he cant prove Obama did it (Original Post) Jimbo101 Mar 2017 OP

Typical rightwing "proof": their self-righteous imagination. Beartracks Mar 2017 #1

What they WANT to believe Cosmocat Mar 2017 #3

ring any bells: Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #2

His ratings must have been down. louis-t Mar 2017 #4

He's such a FUCKING LUNATIC that he makes Bill O'Reilly look like a journalist. Chasstev365 Mar 2017 #5

Mark Levin is a liar and a fraud- he has no support for his claims Gothmog Mar 2017 #6

If the real media starts to do its real job, how easy would it be to discredit all these . . . . . Stinky The Clown Mar 2017 #7

Beartracks

(12,821 posts)

1. Typical rightwing "proof": their self-righteous imagination.

Reply to Jimbo101 (Original post)

Sun Mar 5, 2017, 03:14 PM

Mar 2017

"I thought it up, and it sounded like something that the Obama I believe exists would do, therefore it happened."

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Cosmocat

(14,572 posts)

3. What they WANT to believe

Reply to Beartracks (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 5, 2017, 03:25 PM

Mar 2017

Transcends reality.

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

2. ring any bells:

Reply to Jimbo101 (Original post)

Sun Mar 5, 2017, 03:20 PM

Mar 2017

http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/06/26/dick-cheney-the-new-york-times-and-the-myth-of-the-iraq-connection-to-9-11/

Harken back to the summer of 2002. In August, Cheney delivered a scary speech about Saddam’s programs for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. A couple weeks later, on Sept. 8, New York Times reporters Judith Miller and Michael Gordon wrote a lurid (and now discredited) tale about aluminum tubes and other things that gave credence to Cheney’s warning.

That very morning, Cheney popped up on Meet the Press and cited the Times story as further evidence of Saddam’s nuclear obsession!

“There’s a story in the New York Times this morning — this is — I don’t — and I want to attribute the Times,” said Cheney. “I don’t want to talk about, obviously, specific intelligence sources, but it’s now public that, in fact, he has been seeking to acquire, and we have been able to intercept and prevent him from acquiring through this particular channel, the kinds of tubes that are necessary to build a centrifuge.”