Discussion: Obama Chief Of Staff: The President 'Can Not,' 'Did Not' Order A Wiretap

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Mr. McDonough is absolutely correct. A judge’s order is required to allow ā€œwiretapping.ā€ Trump is lying, or delusional, or both.

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He didn’t explain the " microwave in every room" order though ! –

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Reams of time wasted chasing down the drooling burps of a vulgarian…sad.

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OMG–a factual and sane statement–thank you!

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So, this is still a question, even…

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Trump is winning this fake news spat, just like he won the birth certificate issue. Obama has to think about suing him for defamation. That is, ask for a public retraction and apology, and if it’s not forthcoming, bring his orange ass into court. He has to defend the integrity of the office of the president.

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The GOP wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked them upside their weasel heads, and spit in their weasel faces.

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I’d really like for Obama to file a libel lawsuit. I know it won’t go anywhere, but just to get it on paper (and in the papers) that the only things stopping it is Trump’s status as president.

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Sanity prevails, but then there is this angle:

There is a story in politics, commonly attributed
to Lyndon B. Johnson, about how LBJ wanted to circulate a rumor
attacking his opponent in a Texas election. Johnson, it’s said, wanted
to spread the story that his opponent liked to have sex with barnyard
animals. One of LBJ’s aides said, ā€œWe can’t prove he’s a pig f----r.ā€ā€œI know that,ā€ replied Johnson. ā€œI just want to hear him deny it.ā€

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FFS enough already. He’s a crazy old man who yells at the TV on Twitter, a bunch of idiots elected him President, and now it matters what he says but we still have the power to say ā€œthere’s no basis to it, it’s just delusional horseshit.ā€ But we don’t, as a society, because that’s too painful and embarrassing. It’s hard to admit to our collective selves that we’ve elected a crazy idiot. So the argument goes on.

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Reminds me of the story about Rove’s start in politics.
He led the campaign team of a candidate for judge in Louisiana. The incumbent was a well-liked judge who had an especially good record on children’s issues. Rove circulated the rumor that the judge was a pedophile.

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Obama Chief Of Staff: The President ā€˜Can Not,’ 'Did Not’ Order A Wiretap
…and the fact that you have been chasing a Trump Breibart fever dream for the last two weeks proves to me your cognitive skills are impaired or you are out and out trying to ignore the Trump administrations complicit involvement with Russian FSB and Russian oligarchs

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Anything that calls out Trump’s lies and causes him to wriggle on the floor like a live reptile gives me pleasure.

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Now that McDonough has denied the claim, Trump will name-drop him as proof of his accusation during the next conservative outlet ā€œinterviewā€.

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If I’m not mistaken, the timing went something like 1. President Obama gets a rock star welcome in NYC. 2. Trump decides he was wiretapped. That ego of his may be the death of all of us.

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Trump: He is just WRONG. POTUS can order wiretap. I know, I have ordered so many that I cant keep track of. Its in millions.

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I would like to hear a little more indignation and moral outrage in the denials, I admit. Still I understand it may be better to remain calm and cool in the face of this sort of craziness. But at least some sort of high-handed dismisiveness would seem to be in order:ā€œIt is beneath the dignity of the office of the presidency to make such unfounded charges.ā€ Something like that

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I remember those! I miss them.

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And don’t forget the wasted money. Wonder how much all this is costing us? But the NEA and NEH, now that’s real profligacy!

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