Trump claims Obama launched Russia probe to discredit campaign

Amused

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The unraveling and desperation grows...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/politics/obama-election-trump-tweet/index.html


Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday accused the Obama administration of using the investigation into potential ties between his campaign and Russia's meddling in the 2016 election to discredit his bid and boost the chances of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

"Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling," Trump tweeted Monday morning.​
 

hal2kilo

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The unraveling and desperation grows...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/politics/obama-election-trump-tweet/index.html


Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday accused the Obama administration of using the investigation into potential ties between his campaign and Russia's meddling in the 2016 election to discredit his bid and boost the chances of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

"Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling," Trump tweeted Monday morning.​
But, but, but I thought the latest meme is that Obama was asleep at the wheel. Do you cons have the updated talking points yet? I need to keep score.
 

fleshconsumed

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I always wonder if his followers just swallow this stuff, or if somewhere deep down they realize that this man is the President, he has the authority to get an answer to any question he asks instead of tweetting it into the void.
 

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It's amazing how traumatic our toddler-age losses have been that enough of us are so tantalized by an adult re-enacting them on the grandest stage that we let him win.

1idad6
 

HomerJS

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Tough for Obama to do that since investigation into Russian meddling started before the election
 

IronWing

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I think he tweeted that before he found out the markets didn't tank today (yet). He wasted a perfectly good distraction.
 

shortylickens

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Trump is so desperate for everyone to love him.

Thats the problem with electing this guy in the first place.
 

woolfe9998

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Then why the frack did we not hear anything about it until January, 2017? The FBI started it's investigation in 7/2016, received the dossier in 8/2016. Why wasn't it leaked to the public? Why was nothing about this investigation leaked to the public at all before election day?
 

Caesar

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I always wonder if his followers just swallow this stuff, or if somewhere deep down they realize that this man is the President, he has the authority to get an answer to any question he asks instead of tweetting it into the void.

Head over to Breitbart or Fox News comment section. There is no realization, just swallowing.
 

Jhhnn

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Why did the FBI investigate? Because there were Russian stooges all over the Trump campaign like flies on shit.
 

fskimospy

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The unraveling and desperation grows...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/politics/obama-election-trump-tweet/index.html


Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday accused the Obama administration of using the investigation into potential ties between his campaign and Russia's meddling in the 2016 election to discredit his bid and boost the chances of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

"Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling," Trump tweeted Monday morning.​

This stupidity isn't even internally consistent. Did Obama do nothing, or did he launch this investigation? Also, the entire purpose of an investigation is to establish whether or not there is proof of wrongdoing. If you already had proof of wrongdoing you wouldn't need the investigation to begin with.

Jesus Christ, is this moron really going to be president for three more years?
 
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brycejones

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Then why the frack did we not hear anything about it until January, 2017? The FBI started it's investigation in 7/2016, received the dossier in 8/2016. Why wasn't it leaked to the public? Why was nothing about this investigation leaked to the public at all before election day?

That's way to logical for the typical Trump supporter to reason out.

It's much easier to go with:

The evil, Kenyan, secret Muslim, who attended an anti-white Christian Church, launched a secret investigation to discredit Trump, but failed to mention it to the American people because he was to lazy and busy playing golf.
 

dainthomas

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If Obama had wanted to discredit Dump's campaign it would have been trivially easy. Release the dossier as soon as he gets it. Done. Hello Madame President.

Unfortunately he constrained himself with ideas of obeying the law and playing fair. Things the right seldom bothers with.
 

woolfe9998

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If Obama had wanted to discredit Dump's campaign it would have been trivially easy. Release the dossier as soon as he gets it. Done. Hello Madame President.

Unfortunately he constrained himself with ideas of obeying the law and playing fair. Things the right seldom bothers with.

Yes, and it's worth mentioning that media organizations also had the dossier prior to election day and none of them reported on it. This is the "liberal" media who passed on an opportunity to sink Trump's campaign because they were concerned about journalistic ethics since the dossier hadn't been corroborated.

I wonder what Fox News would have done if they had an uncorroborated dossier on Clinton prior to the election...
 

zerocool84

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Yes, and it's worth mentioning that media organizations also had the dossier prior to election day and none of them reported on it. This is the "liberal" media who passed on an opportunity to sink Trump's campaign because they were concerned about journalistic ethics since the dossier hadn't been corroborated.

I wonder what Fox News would have done if they had an uncorroborated dossier on Clinton prior to the election...
There's no wondering what they would have done. It would have been front page news for them they second they got their hands on it.
 

HomerJS

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Then why the frack did we not hear anything about it until January, 2017? The FBI started it's investigation in 7/2016, received the dossier in 8/2016. Why wasn't it leaked to the public? Why was nothing about this investigation leaked to the public at all before election day?
A statement was released by Homeland Security before the election. Obama wanted to issue a stronger joint statement but the fuckhead Mitch McConnell wouldn't co-operate