• Donald Trump accuses Obama of 'wire-tapping' his office before election
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[quote]Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of “wire tapping” his offices in New York City before the presidential election in November last year, claiming the former president had overseen a “Nixon/Watergate”-style intervention. Launching a series of tweets at 5.35am eastern time on Saturday morning, the US president said: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” He followed up that initial tweet with a string of others in the following 30 minutes that claimed Obama had defied a court rejection to tap his office, and invited a “good lawyer” to make a case against the alleged process. [media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837993273679560704[/media] [media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837994257566863360[/media] The president then compared the alleged surveillance of his communications to Watergate – the scandal in the early 1970s that brought down Republican president Richard Nixon after he ordered a break-in of the Democrats’ Washington headquarters. [media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837996746236182529[/media] Trump’s tweets follow claims made by conservative radio host Mark Levin on his Thursday night show about the alleged steps taken by the Obama administration to undermine the Republican candidate’s campaign to win the White House. The presenter called the effort a “silent coup” by the Obama administration and called for a congressional investigation into the issue. That contrasts with demands from across the US political spectrum to examine Russian interference in the presidential election. Levin’s comments were followed up by Breitbart News, the “alt-right” website founded by Steve Bannon, who ran the Trump campaign and is now the president’s chief strategist. The article stated: “The Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorisation to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA [National Security Agency] rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media.” The Breitbart report references recent claims that the FBI asked the foreign intelligence surveillance court for a warrant last year to monitor members of the Trump team suspected of being in contact with Russian officials. The request for the warrant was initially rejected before being granted in October, the reports have said.[/quote] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/04/donald-trump-accuses-obama-of-wire-tapping-his-office-before-election[/url]
Fuck off you delusional, narcissistic, orange twit. God damn embarrassment.
I think everyone agrees that having the president pop off his mouth every 2 seconds on twitter is obnoxious and unacceptable. He looks like a fool.
[quote=Wikipedia]Under common law, to constitute defamation, a claim must generally be false and must have been made to someone other than the person defamed. In some civil law jurisdictions, defamation is treated as a crime rather than a civil wrong.[/quote] And he does this all the fucking time, I'm so done with this orange puckered liar
I still remember that one video where Obama said how Bush Jr introduced him to the White House with no issues at all despite their opposite parties, and how he did the same with Trump. There's no way in hell that Trump will ever do the same if he does last the 4 years in office.
Our president is mentally ill, a delusional bigot and cares about nothing other than his own self image and money. Yet people still support him and he knows exactly what words to use to exploit their own delusional beliefs and fears. What's new? What surprises me the most is that there are perfectly reasonable people that still support this psycho for whatever reason (an oxymoron I know, but I've seen it with my own two eyes). That's what really blows my mind.
still trying to distract
[QUOTE=LSK;51911978]Our president is mentally ill, a delusional bigot and cares about nothing other than his own self image and money. Yet people still support him and he knows exactly what words to use to exploit their own delusional beliefs and fears. What's new? What surprises me the most is that there are perfectly reasonable people that still support this psycho for whatever reason (an oxymoron I know, but I've seen it with my own two eyes). That's what really blows my mind.[/QUOTE] Primarily single issue voters.
The worst part of this imo is that some people (eg. my dad) actually buy into this crazy shit. I can't tell if Trump genuinely believes this or he's just trying to rile his supporters up even more.
is he confirming on twitter something that would be classified information because fisa court orders generally are...
Nothing scary about our president jailing political opponents from baseless claims
this cheese curd will complain about anything and everything, no matter how fake, won't he
how the fuck is he going to be able to play this off?
This man is an embarrassment to our country and the fact he was elected has made me lose all faith that our problems will be solved in the next few decades.
I think it only shows how strong of character Obama is to not reply to Trump's nonsense. Whatever you think of his policies (and I disagree with a lot of his international ones for sure), you can say this: he is a gentleman.
[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;51912046]how the fuck is he going to be able to play this off?[/QUOTE] By riling up his supporters to "lock them up!"
He just called his predecessor a sick man on Twitter, giving his supporters a free pass to do the same and worse. Basically, if I try to interpret that the way a supporter might, it looks like he's accusing Obama of wire tapping for perverted reasons. Just why
[QUOTE=Tigster;51912064]He just called his predecessor a sick man on Twitter, giving his supporters a free pass to do the same and worse.[B] Basically, if I try to interpret that the way a supporter might, it looks like he's accusing Obama of wire tapping for perverted reasons.[/B] Just why[/QUOTE] ... oh sweet jesus i just read that part of the tweet does that imply trump is doin- ... welp, time to takes some eye bleach.
[QUOTE=Tigster;51912064]He just called his predecessor a sick man on Twitter, giving his supporters a free pass to do the same and worse. Basically, if I try to interpret that the way a supporter might, it looks like he's accusing Obama of wire tapping for perverted reasons. Just why[/QUOTE] -snip-
[media]https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus/status/838028741678886912[/media] [editline]4th March 2017[/editline] [media]https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/837999692084559872[/media]
[QUOTE=Potus;51912119][media]https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus/status/838028741678886912[/media][/QUOTE] Except EFF has also said that The authorities like to go Judge shopping for FISA warrants not Joking. That is one of the things the EFF is fighting against.
What a trainwreck
[QUOTE=Potus;51912119][media]https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus/status/838028741678886912[/media] [editline]4th March 2017[/editline] [media]https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/837999692084559872[/media][/QUOTE] so if i'm reading this right either he's a liar or he's incriminated himself?
Oh sweet merciful Jesus please let this be the straw that breaks this administration's back.
Of course Obama wire-tapped Trump's office, he's the founder of ISIS! I bet he's the reason behind the very successful operation completely missing its goals and resulting in a lot of collateral losses despite being very successful.
[QUOTE=Cone;51912211]so if i'm reading this right either he's a liar or he's incriminated himself?[/QUOTE] Well the Obama administration "assuming they did this" would require a fucking solid reason as to why they want to tap incl potential classified information which would back the reason So yea if true, then he just accused himself of committing a crime on Twitter a few months in
Please let this signal the end for the human orange and his corrupt stooges. [i][b]Please.[/i][/b]
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;51912281]Please let this signal the end for the human orange and his corrupt stooges. [i][b]Please.[/i][/b][/QUOTE] NOPE, Conservatives are pissed, because they feel like this is "IRS/FBI Targeting Scandal part III" (In which they claim Obama ordered Tea Party groups to be spyed on)
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;51912299]NOPE, Conservatives are pissed, because they feel like this is "IRS/FBI Targeting Scandal part III" (In which they claim Obama ordered Tea Party groups to be spyed on)[/QUOTE] Are conservatives themselves trying to reinforce the "conservatives are stupid and knows shit about technology or the world around them" stereotype now? Because that's the results of what they're doing.
Does this count as libel? Falsely accusing somebody of a crime, defamation of character, something along the lines of that?
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