Well, this is a relief! If the FBI was suspicious that a hostile foreign power was actively trying to manipulate our presidential election and the only thing the FBI did was have one retired college professor make a couple contacts with the trump campaign, that would’ve been a pretty pathetic response, wouldn’t it? I can’t believe they only sent a couple informants rather than sending in 50 FBI agents to interrogate everybody in the trump campaign.
Yup. And Mueller’s going to wrap up by September 1st. That’s the ticket.
“When we finally find out the truth about this, Director Clapper and the rest of them are going to be wearing some orange suits,” he added.
Did his attorney OK this statement?
Did somebody hear some bits of meat flapping together?
It sounds kind of like a butterfly farting.
They’re acting like it’s a bad thing that the FBI investigates illegal activity.
We are watching the death of the republic in real time
The more serious the investigation into your actions, the more innocent you are. That’s just common sense.
Moreover, it proves that Crooked Obama is actually the least innocent president evar! Do you see how well this works?
This Hail Mary crap is really getting scary. It seems so obviously absurd, but then I remember the people in my Facebook feed who’ll believe anything that makes Orange look good. The administration clearly intends to go to war completely and fully against the rule of law. And considering that they have access to the bullhorns and millions of useful idiots, things could get really bad, really fast.
Now “undercover FBI agent” equals “informant”. You know like the convicted cellmate who rats on his buddy to get a reduced sentence…
Perhaps, but mealy-mouthed idiots mouthpooping their pants on Fox News doesn’t really provide any meaningful signal one way or the other.
Unless people decide it’s actually true, and then maybe it has some effect. I don’t give Caputo and his ilk that sort of power over my personal fight to keep the republic strong, no matter how minuscule my efforts might be in my little corner of it.
These are classic Russian propaganda tricks. Again, none of this stuff happens if our media ask a simple question, repeatedly: Why were there so many Russian agents working for the Trump campaign?
““When we finally find out the truth about this, Director Clapper and the
rest of them are going to be wearing some orange suits,” he added.”
Yep, they think they have traction with this. Full court press. The Gas Lighting has begun.
No criminal, no criminal, they are the criminals!
I don’t think this will convince anybody outside the 27%. As a very wise* (or big!*) man might say, “we’ll see”.
/snark
By this standard, any criminals who had an informant in their midst have a get-out-of-jail-free card.
“This informant, this person that they planted, try to plant into the campaign and even into the administration if you believe Axios, …"
What if we don’t…believe axios?
That’s been known for some time. But the rule of law has defenders. The last time an administration tried this shit, a guy named Mark Felt, the associate director of the FBI, helped the good guys out. Of course until he died nobody knew his name. They only knew him as Deep Throat. Clapper in an orange suit? I don’t think so. I really don’t.
As was pointed out in a Pod Save America podcast I was listening to last night, if the FBI was politically motivated to sink the Dump campaign, all it would have taken was a single phone call by a single agent to a single reporter to tell him or her that the campaign was being investigated. Moreover, the idiot won the election, so any “infiltration” didn’t have any negative impact. Idiots.
“Infiltrate”? C’mon TPM, at least use some scare quotes.
It’s moral inversion with the Trumpistas. And we’re getting into Voltaire territory now; paraphrased: if you can get the Trumpistas to believe absurdities, you can get them to commit atrocities.