Now, Tell Me Again How This Isn’t Worse Than Watergate?

Let’s be clear, The DOJ and FBI, under Barack Obama, investigated and spied on the Trump presidential campaign complete with wiretaps, informants and moles. They also concealed the activities from congressional oversight for months.

And, as far as we’ve been told, the entire premise of this operation was a comment made by George Papadopoulos, a low-level campaign volunteer, and the unverified opposition research known as the “Steele Dossier” which was paid for by the Clinton campaign.

Now, tell me again how this isn’t worse than Watergate?

Larry O’Connor writes in the Washington Times, May 17, 2018

The New York Times served up a preemptive attempt at damage control in front of the pending Inspector General’s report on the FBI and DOJ’s conduct during the Clnton email investigation which is due out any day now. 

However, hidden inside the obvious attempt to justify the dubious origins of and tactics employed in the FBI counter intelligence investigation into the Trump presidential campaign 100 days before election day in 2016 is the obvious fact that the FBI, under Barack Obama, launched an FBI investigation against Donald Trump’s campaign. 

OK. Actually, it’s not hidden. It’s right there in plain sight. But the way the mainstream media is covering the Times article, you’d think it was the biggest buried lede in the history of journalism. 

In March 2017, President Donald Trump sent out the following tweet: 

1. Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

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At the time the claim was ridiculed and decried. Trump was called a liar and much worse. Only a handful of observers looked at the facts at hand and reached a conclusion other than the sanctimonious claims made by mainstream journalists. 

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