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For some of President Trumps staunchest allies, reports that former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was under U.S. surveillance are nothing short of vindication of the presidents widely-dismissed claims that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
Although surveillance experts from both sides of the aisle say the claims mischaracterize reports about the order on Manafort, that hasnt stopped Trump allies from saying the president was right all along.
Longtime advisor Roger Stone has gleefully circulated a segment from Tucker Carlsons show on Fox News in which the host says all those patronizing assurances that nobody is spying on political campaigns were false and it looks like Trump's tweet may have been right.
When Trump made his claim in March, it was rejected by members of both parties. The Justice Department later stated that it had no evidence to back them up.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/351994-trump-allies-see-vindication-in-reports-on-manafort
Only Trump and his allies would think getting caught colluding with the Russians amounts to vindication.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)Trump claimed Obama wire-tapped him in order to spy on him.
Manafort was wire-tapped pursuant to a FISA warrant.
Only in a RWer's tiny mind are those two things the same.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Their conspiritorial meme blew up in their faces like everything else.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Better headline : "After legal wiretap supported by evidence Manafort committed a crime, Trump allies try to change the subject"
Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,154 posts)foreign agents and traitors hardly vindicates him.