So what are the odds Trump has been monitored or bugged?

[sfwriter]

I think they are pretty high. Remember that he refused to use a secure phone and wanted to keep his unsecure phone? Why? For Twitter? He strikes me as just the sort of dunce who would think his phone would protect him when he made contact with Russia.

If the FBI has managed to identify his network, then the five eyes network COULD have spied on him. They would, in turn, share with the NSA and through the, the FBI.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-security-risk-hackers-601903

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. He did that on purpose.

he cant set up a radio transmitter in the oval office (or can he?) so he talked to them on his phone by willingly knowing they were third party listening. Not too complicated. He was copying his calls to russia and china and others...everytime.

[MineralMan]

2. By whom?

Yes, of course he has been bugged or monitored. The question is: Who's listening.

[dalton99a]

3. Heck, even China probably has a recording of his cellphone conversations

[empedocles]

4. Mueller could get the copies of trump cell talks from foreign intelligence services?

[marylandblue]

5. Of course he could, but in a counter intelligence investigation

He can get a FISA warrant and do it himself.

[sfwriter]

7. Obama made that easier as he left.

He created faster info sharing between NSA and the rest of the security apparatus in the US.

[empedocles]

12. Thank you

[Buckeyeblue]

6. I have a hunch that some around him have worn wires

And it wouldn't surprise me if one of those people was named Jared. He knows the Big Daddy would let him go to prison if it meant saving Junior or Ivanka. So why should he be loyal if he can cut a deal to stay out of prison.

[Fragment]

8. Russians visit White House after Comey Firing

I’m pretty sure the Russians gave Trump a secure phone with a direct line to Putin. It does feel as though Putin has been running our country.

[KPN]

10. There is no such thing as a secure phone.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. If you had read the Steele Dossier,

the answers were right there. Remember,Estonia is considered the best Intelligence Agency on the European Continent. Steele knew were to go to find the truth and he produced a Collage of bits and pieces he acquired from his sources. None of Steele's narrative has been disproved yet today.

He was the one who first mentioned the Server in Trump Tower and the interconnect with DeVos's Spectrum Health Server in Grand Rapids Michigan. And in that original document issue,there was a reference to US Intel monitoring everything coming and going out of Trump Tower .

[Claritie Pixie]

11. 100%. Obama made sure of it with EO before leaving.

He gave the FBI and CIA direct access to raw signals intelligence the NSA intercepts as part of counterintel or foreign intel investigations. Also made sharing with and accepting intel from our allies easier.

More about signal intelligence:

https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/signals-intelligence/

I have no doubt the FBI has been listening in real time ever since Trump came under investigation in 2017.

[empedocles]

13. Good clarity. Thanks

[scarytomcat]

14. I am sure Russia, North Korea and China are listening to his unsecured telephone

probably we are too.