No evidence
Congressional intelligence people to Trump: we don’t believe you.
The Republican and Democrat leading the Senate investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election appeared on Thursday to counter White House claims that there may have been surveillance of some sort on Trump Tower around the campaign, even if there was not specific wiretapping as President Trump said in a tweet nearly two weeks ago.
“Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016,” Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said in a joint statement on Thursday.
Spicey is trying to spin that as “We haven’t found anything yet but that doesn’t mean we won’t!!”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Wednesday he doesn’t believe “there was an actual tap of Trump Tower,” but the statement from the Senate intelligence leaders represents broader pushback.
Asked to weigh in on wiretapping on Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, “We’ve cleared that up. That — that we’ve seen no evidence of that.”
Trump has not produced any evidence to back his assertion. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said this week that, “I think there is significant reporting about surveillance techniques that have existed throughout the 2016 election.” “I think he feels very confident that what will ultimately come of this will vindicate him,” Spicer said, referring to the president.
Of course he feels confident, but that’s because he’s a fucking fool, not because he has good reasons.
Paul Ryan said, “We’ve cleared that up. That — that we’ve seen no evidence of that.”
Oh well. Moving on, I guess. The president accused his predecessor of a felony. No evidence. Moving on. Ho-hum.
Maybe they’re busy fabricating evidence.
I’m sure they’ve got some Crayolas around.
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It’s a Big Lie. Repeat it often enough and people will believe it, or remember it in future and assume it referred to something real because “where there’s smoke there’s fire” is the rallying cry of simpleminded tools everywhere.
Obama’s wiretap (or “wiretap”) is already a front page headline in supermarket tabloids (which will in turn, no doubt, be used as a source for Trump). The grocery store in the mall where I work carries the National Enquirer and the Globe, which have been praising Trump and bashing Obama (“Trump cleans up Obama’s mess”) and Clinton (“Hillary caught taking bribes”). Kind of a step down from Bigfoot and Batboy, from pseudoscience to dystopia. It’s disturbing to see this sort of evil, fascistic lying week after week.
Not Bruce? – the tabloids are pandering to their readership. They do not assume their readership is the “coastal elite”, and they will go the worst possible direction to appeal to the worst in their readers. The tabloids have been bashing Clinton since the 1992 election, and I am sure will continue bashing her for decades after her death.
They don’t care whether it is true or not, they make up most of it. But I fear most of their readers believe the same way that the Men in Black argued, that they are the most accurate sources.