Category: 2016 election

Trump’s outrageous claim about the FBI

Remember when Trump said that Obama wiretapped him?  This was a lie with no supporting evidence.  Trump has done it again with his claim that the FBI embedded someone in his campaign.  This is another baseless claim designed to take attention away from the actual activities of the Trump campaign.

Think about it:

  1. The FBI was investigating Clinton’s emails during the campaign.  Comey made two public statement which contributed to Clinton’s loss in the election.
  2. The FBI was investigating the Trump’s campaign’s contacts with Russia (an enemy of the US) during the campaign.  The FBI said nothing about this during the campaign.  Neither did President Obama.

If the FBI and Obama wanted to hurt Trump and help Clinton, they would have said something before the election about the connections between Russia and the Trump campaign.  They didn’t.  The facts are the opposite of Trump’s outrageous claim since their inaction helped Trump.

Sad!

Update:  Here’s a great tweet:

What is Trump up to?

Trump’s latest unhinged tweet demands that the Department of Justice look into whether or not they infiltrated the Trump campaign for political purposes.  Notice his tweetstorm today did not deal with the substance of the New York Times story that his campaign met with other foreign countries in addition to Russia.

Trump’s request is wrong and unreasonable.  I hope that the DOJ doesn’t cave in.  I think he is doing this as an excuse to fire Sessions, Rosenstein, and/or Wray if they don’t do what he wants.  If he gets rid of Rosenstein, he can put someone in who will fire Mueller.

What happens if he does any or all of this?  The Democrats will get upset but they have no power.  The cowardly Republicans will do nothing; they have not stopped Trump before.  The Mueller investigation will continue even if Mueller is gone – this happened in Watergate after Cox was fired.

Trump is doing damage to the country that will take decades to repair.  We are all less safe because of his efforts to unmask the informant  – why would anyone give confidential information to US intelligence agencies if they know they can be exposed?  The bottom line is there would be no informant if the Trump campaign did not have many contacts with Russians, enemies of the US.

Reactions to Trump’s tweets:

Trump. Jr. and others in the campaign met with representatives from other countries in addition to Russia

This article is about:

“Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.”

Trump went on a tweetstorm today but “…did not challenge the accuracy of The Times’s account, which was the first indication that countries other than Russia may have offered assistance to his campaign in the months before the presidential election. But he suggested that the breadth of the inquiry was proof that Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which he has repeatedly called a baseless “witch hunt,” was a partisan exercise geared toward harming Republican congressional candidates.”

The Mueller investigation has not gone on too long

Republicans want the investigation to wrap up but the time frame is not long compared to other investigations.

This article has time frames for other investigations:

Iran-contra: 6 years, 8 months (1986-1993)
Samuel Pierce, HUD corruption: 9 years (1990-1999)
George H.W. Bush administration, improper search of passport records: 3 years (1992-1995)
Henry Cisneros, mistress payments: 11 years (1995-2006)
Mike Espy, gifts from agriculture company: 6 years (1994-2001)
Bill and Hillary Clinton, Whitewater: 6 years 8 months (1994-2000)
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, CIA leak: 3½ years (2003-2007)

The NRA, Russia and the Trump campaign

This article states: “The Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that the Russian government apparently used the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.”

Sad!

update 12/10/18