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Trump is fanning a conspiracy theory that the whistleblower was illegally spying on the president and that the IG just shrugged this off to treat the complaint as urgent and credible.
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Link to tweet
Predictable:
I didnt do it.
If I did it, it was OK.
If I did it it and it wasnt OK, the bigger crime is how you found out.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 22, 2019, 10:24 AM - Edit history (1)
a bunch of damn fools with tRump as president.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)He lies constantly. But he gets caught in his lies constantly. He believes in loads of conspiracies because he's so gullible and too stupid to recognize how foolish they sound.
He's not good at manipulating public perception, either. Look at his terrible approval ratings. He's not a criminal mastermind. Everybody knows he has committed many, many crimes. Loyal Republicans protect him and make excuses for him because they don't want to admit how morally bankrupt their team has become. Many of them have obstructed justice to protect their brand, also.
Once he leaves office, they will catch a worse case of amnesia about Trump than they did about George W. Bush. Once he goes to prison, Trump's current defenders will claim they "never really knew what he was up to" and all they did was "sometimes get coffee for him."
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)Usually his lies are of a little higher quality...
justgamma
(3,660 posts)we need someone listening!
MuseRider
(34,057 posts)and wondering why every little thing AND big things are dealt with by this creep the same way. There have to be some who were/are parents who have heard this line of "not me" more than once but not more than a few times before they did not even believe their own kid.
I mean, really? Every single thing has an excuse that is essentially the same excuse and this one, like all the others will soon by followed by *blah blah blah* Democrat and "your favorite president." If they are not gagging over all of this by now we are a lost cause. All the smart people have spent all their time with "bless your heart" and head shaking and tisking rather than smacking them upside the head and calling attention to the insane crap they believe. Too many years, too much stupid.
sinkingfeeling
(51,275 posts)those things intelligence agencies do?
Talitha
(6,477 posts)Wow, he's really stupid - and paranoid, to boot.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)bluestarone
(16,720 posts)Need time to get there lying story together. Can't wait for them to get found guilty, and lose everything they own.
madaboutharry
(40,149 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)And they both know it.
This was a direct challenge to the law created by Congress on how to handle a whistle blower claim. It was a law long-respected by both Parties.
With the DNI giving the information to the DOJ, it was against the law.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)listen in on conversations between that person and foreigners.
trof
(54,255 posts)How does a human being become so twisted?
It's beyond me.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)A very damaged person. If only it were confined to him and his immediate family and not the entire world.
BHDem53
(1,059 posts)Barack Obama and he is no longer in office. Unfortunately.
Delmette2.0
(4,141 posts)I hate it when he tweets or talks in the third person.
Talitha
(6,477 posts)Next thing you know, he'll start saying "We are not amused".
Delmette2.0
(4,141 posts)I think you said it better, It's just creepy.
HiloHatti
(79 posts)If there was proof of what he says in Whistleblower Complaint then dont you think he wouldnt be standing in the way of releasing it?
Rachel Maddow has been saying since 1/20/2017, watch his actions, ignore his words.
orleans
(33,986 posts)"When we collect information on people overseas we don't use the Constitution," Senator Rand Paul said during a Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill this Wednesday. "So we scoop up all your information, we listen to phone calls everywhere, including [Chancellor of Germany] Angela Merkel, we listen to everybody."
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"Paul, citing news reports from The Washington Post, argued that the president has been recorded multiple times as the agencies attempt to pick up information from influential world leaders. The senator pointed to one article which stated that when Barack Obama was in the Oval Office there were 1,500 occasions where his conversations were gathered by the intelligence community."
https://www.newsweek.com/are-nsa-fbi-listening-trumps-phone-calls-1167924