Who's under investigation in the current White House? Devin Nunes seems to know
TUESDAY, MAR 21, 2017 07:59 AM EDT
Who’s under investigation in the current White House? Devin Nunes seems to know
The House intelligence chair appears to have let something slip: Is "one" person in White House under surveillance?
BOB CESCA
Donald Trump will never, ever concede anything having to do with Russian hijacking of the 2016 presidential election process. It’s simply not in his personality. Trump only thinks in terms of good guys and bad guys, black and white. The way he sees it, the bad guys — the Democrats, not the Russians — are saying he won because Russia helped him win. Therefore in public Trump believes the exact opposite. Privately, he may well know he’s guilty, but he’s too inept when it comes to politics to know how best to conduct damage control.
And so on Monday during the congressional testimonies of FBI Director James Comey and the NSA director, Mike Rogers, Trump continued to defy the facts by blurting out on Twitter: “The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.” Trump’s little shell game here is to conflate Election Day voting-machine hacking — for which there’s no evidence and that no one in the intelligence community has suggested occurred — and the hacking of the Democratic Party emails. Trump wants his supporters to believe there was no Russian influence at all, when he responds to part of Monday’s hearings about whether voting machines were hacked. Overall, it’s more of the same: deny, deny, deny.
Regardless of Trump’s ungainly flailing on the issue, the facts are the facts. We discovered on Monday that indeed the FBI is investigating collaboration between Russia and the Trump campaign that’s long been reported. This was confirmed by Comey in sworn testimony to the House Intelligence Committee despite Trump’s silly and transparent attempts to exploit the ignorance of his most loyal disciples via social media.
Comey told the committee that the bureau’s investigation “includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.” To further define what’s happening, we now have official word that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign and its top staffers for engaging in activity tantamount to treason — providing aid and comfort to a foreign nation seeking to commandeer our election process and therefore our nation’s sovereignty.
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