Find the leakers, Trump tells media as wiretapping issue refuses to die down

[inanna]

Source: Washington Post

April 2 at 11:24 AM

President Trump on Sunday called on the “fake news media” to turn its attention to questions of illegal government surveillance and ferreting out the leakers within his administration.

“The real story turns out to be SURVEILLANCE and LEAKING!” the president wrote Sunday morning on Twitter. “Find the leakers.”

Last month, Trump accused former president Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, a baseless claim that Trump and his team have continued to trumpet despite providing no corroborating evidence.

Trump aides' attempts to buttress his wiretapping allegations have been unsuccessful. Meanwhile, a House Intelligence Committee investigation into both Russia’s apparent meddling in the 2016 election and Trump’s surveillance claims has become deeply politicized, with the committee’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), coming under scrutiny for his handling of the investigation.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/04/02/find-the-leakers-trump-tells-media-as-wiretapping-issue-refuses-to-die-down/?utm_term=.ed98cbab74d5

[RKP5637]

1. Donald's deflection, as usual. Guess what Donald, all of the US is not as stupid as your supporters!

[lastlib]

19. Media to Tinyhands: "Proceed with self-fornication."

Maybe when Tinyhands says "Find the leakers," he is referring to those Russian prostitutes who, um, *decorated* his bed in Moscow?

[meadowlark5]

2. But the leaks during the campaign were not the issue, it was the information leaked!!

Oh how the tide turns. Poor dumpy

[Igel]

4. Yes, it's amazing how people flip-flop when it suits them.

That's the principle involved.

[Honeycombe8]

3. The more he says that, the more the media will cover the real story: Russia.

Except for Fox political shows and partisan websites like Breitbart, of course.

There is no information or evidence whatsoever that Trump was ever wiretapped (or Trump Tower), according to our intelligence agencies, who investigated it. Comey did say that doesn't mean that members of the campaign may not have been picked up incidentally when intelligence agencies were wiretapping others.

Trump is pretty successful at keeping the flames burning on fake stories. I suppose that's because most people don't pay close attention to politics. They just hear soundbites and read his tweets. They most certainly didn't watch the intel hearing before the House Intelligence Committee (even then, the Repubs kept asking questions about the LEAKS, as if that were the important thing). Leaks are important, but of course the most important thing is Russia interfering with our democracy.

It was the White House itself, through Nunes, that LEAKED that Trump was incidentally wiretapped. I think that was the gist of what Nunes was talking about.

[Vinca]

5. He'd better set up a polygraph machine in the West Wing.

[Shrike47]

6. Is he so stupid he doesn't realize nobody's buying it?

[inanna]

7. Yes. He is THAT stupid. n/t

[ananda]

14. Actually a lot of Deplorables still support 45.

Many of them will buy it.

[George II]

8. Sure, don't worry about the crimes that were committed endangering our national security....

....worry about how we found out about those crimes.

This is getting more and more Watergate-like every week.

[msongs]

9. hardly LBN now is it nt

[Ligyron]

10. I may have to subscribe to WP as I continuously run out of free articles.

Be worth it to support actual investigative journalism - an increasingly rare animal until the Trump regime began.

[inanna]

12. I know what you mean about the free article thing.

WaPo has been one of my go-tos recently.

[Demsrule86]

17. I did sign up to the Post. After the travesty of the cable coverage of

Trump's candidacy...we need to support print media...signed up for the New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and joined Mother Jones and talking point memo.

[stonecutter357]

11. the rapist peeotus did what?

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[keithbvadu2]

13. "Find the leakers, Trump tells media"- Doesn't he have agencies for that?

"Find the leakers, Trump tells media"- Doesn't he have agencies for that?

Why, yes he does.

It's just that his own agencies call him a liar.

They just use more polite terms.

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. does he mean the women who leaked on him in Russia?

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. Maybe he needs a little liquid R&R to relieve all the stress

and needs help tracking down the Russian hookers that did such a tremendous job for him last time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. The Real Media should ignore tRump's FAKE tweets. . . . nt

[sdfernando]

18. Damn cheeto hombre is SOOO STUPID!!!

The media did find the leakers you ignorant SOB. How do you think they get these stories?? Why would the media give up their golden geese? It's not their job to give up the sources.