FBI wiretapped Russian gambling ring headquarted at Trump Tower

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

Turns out there was a wiretap at Trump Tower after all — just not the way President Trump has said.

The FBI had a court-sanctioned warrant for two years to monitor a Russian crime organization working out of a unit three floors below President Trump’s penthouse, according to an ABC News report.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fbi-wiretapped-russian-gambling-ring-headquarted-trump-tower-article-1.3004226

[BeyondGeography]

1. Oh, that'll calm everything down

I'm sure they felt right at home.

[cilla4progress]

2. So when trump says he was wiretapped there

he was admitting to being part of this Russian gambling ring?

[iluvtennis]

8. Yeah right. Dumpty explicitly claimed Obama wiretapped him...no gambling ring....

...and it is in the rights of FBI and CIA to wiretap Russia orgs...Russia is our enemy.

[yellowcanine]

15. Unless Trump is part of the gambling ring.......

Just sayin.'

[Me.]

3. This JUst Gets Better & Better

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. You live in the neighborhood, right? Isnt it a known fact that

trump is connected to american organized crime, at a minimum?

[brooklynite]

10. I live in Brooklyn; Trump is in Midtown

[annabanana]

28. Pretty much all builders of big buildings in NYC had to

deal with organized crime. Especially in the coke-fueled 80's

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. A Russian gambling ring in Trump Tower?

Why that's not odd. Not odd at all.

[Cosmocat]

23. As a reflection of just how fucked up this country is

this little tidbit won't even register ...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I'm shocked, shocked to find out gambling is going on in here!

[msanthrope]

11. Damn IT!!!!!!! Beat me to it!!!! nt

[jpak]

14. i deleted my dupe below

n/t

[Hekate]

27. ROFL. Well played, Ocelot, well played

[Ilsa]

29. Beat it to it. So did msanthrope. Well done! nt

[Xipe Totec]

12. How credible is this source?

[Fast Walker 52]

20. that's what I'm wondering-- but it appears based on this ABC News story

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story-fbi-wiretap-russians-trump-tower/story?id=46266198

[d_r]

22. story from abc

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story-fbi-wiretap-russians-trump-tower/story?id=46266198

[yellowcanine]

13. So Trump admitted to being part of a Russian gambling ring?

That is the only way his tweet bore any resemblance to the truth. Am I wrong?

[FakeNoose]

18. The Feds have wiretapped the Russians who are operating in TT

... but they must have gotten phone conversations of Trump talking to them.

If Trump hadn't been talking to them he wouldn't have been recorded on the wiretap.
IDK maybe he just called and told them the rent was due.

[Sunlei]

16. read somewhere 2 apartments/floors? are owned by(decades ago Russia) old 'friends' of trumps

bet they don't pay the $24,000k a month rent those 5th Avenue full floor apartments cost.

25 years ago one of my friends lived on 5th Avenue, NYC in a tiny apartment, not trump tower.

[CrispyQ]

17. I have an FB friend who thinks that the FBI put Trump in office

in order to smoke out the Russian infiltration. I like to think that's the case, too, that someone is actually doing something about the impostor in the White House, otherwise, the next republican president will get 95% of the popular vote & 100% of the electoral vote.

[Fast Walker 52]

21. I don't follow any of that logic...

[CrispyQ]

24. Logic? We're down the rabbit hole.

She thinks the FBI is infiltrated & somehow Trump is connected & the FBI is using him to find the moles & purge them. I think that if we don't get this impostor out of the WH before 2020, our elections could go the way of dictatorships, where the president wins with huge, impossible percentages. You still get to vote, but the winner is always the same. I vacillate between thinking there's something deep going on behind the scenes & eventually they will take him down, to thinking that we are going to have him for eight frickin' years.

[Fast Walker 52]

25. ah, thanks

I agree with you that the longer he stays in office, the more damage he will do and the harder he will be to remove. Scary times.

[Initech]

19. A casino owner ran a secret gambling ring? I'm shocked I tell you!

[Achilleaze]

26. Republican family values

Deplorable

[Hekate]

30. Here's one of the things that amazes me: Benedict Donald really thought he was untouchable.

Holding public office is nothing like private life. The people, and the media, demand a level of openness that can be devastating.

Look at Tillerson -- never in his entire career at Exxon has he been publicly called to account for his actions, and now he is severely annoyed. The Donald has spent his entire career courting publicity, but that is nothing like running for office, much less holding office.

This country is not yet so far gone that no one will care or dare to question our politicians. These bastards want to demolish our institutions for a reason -- but we may be saved by said institutions yet.

[gordianot]

31. At last Trump complaints are about business associates.

Just who owns what? At least the crooks are in plain sight. For future reference never allow someone to run without tax returns and financial disclosure. Now how many bankruptcies has Trump been a a participant?