POTUS calls for congressional probe into wiretapping of his campaign

The Trump administration called for congressional investigations on Sunday, into his claim the Obama administration orchestrated an attempt to gain information on then-GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement: "Reports concerning potentially motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling . . . President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committee exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016."

In a reflexive tweet Mr. Trump wrote: "Who was it that secretly said to Russian President, 'Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility?'"

Spicer's statement comes after President Trump's explosive allegation that former President Obama ordered phones wiretapped at Trump Tower and added that nobody in his administration "will comment further until such oversight is conducted."

Trump's wiretap allegations in a bunch of tweets Saturday, along with the White House statement, are the latest developments in the "Vladimir Putin is trying to influence the U.S. election for Trump over his rival and shrew, Hillary Clinton" controversy. 

National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had to resign over this situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any DoJ probe in the matter because it was learned that he spoke with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak after a gaggle of Democrats did the same.

"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism," the president tweeted Saturday.

And then he tweeted again: "Is it legal for a sitting president to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!"

It isn't clear to whom Mr. Trump was directing the legal question, but we can rule out Alan Dershowitz and Rosie O'Donnell.

And then he tweeted again that a "good lawyer could make a great case of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to election!"

And again: "How low has President Obama gone to tap (sic) my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" he said, overusing exclamation points and asking rhetorical questions, as he often does.

Obama denied Trump's accusation that he had Trump's phones tapped weeks before the November election. But that doesn't mean he didn't have someone else do it for him--like Loretta "How-are-your-grandkids-Bill" Lynch.

But Kevin Lewis, an Obama towel boy and caddy, refuted the idea that Lynch or Obama had anything to do with the alleged wiretapping. "Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply racist false."

So deniable plausibility aside, it's possible that the FBI or an outside source did the tapping.

In a Breitbart article on Friday it claimed the Obama administration made two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) requests last year to monitor Trump's communications and a computer server in Trump Tower. The purpose was to determine if there were links with Russian banks.

No evidence of such links were found. Nada. Zilch.

Trump, on Sunday, has again attacked Obama saying he colluded with Russia.

Brilliant strategy: throw the grenade back at him.



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Are the Democrats colluding with Russia against the Trump administration?

Is Sergey Kislyak working for the Democratic Party? Nobody seems to be asking this obvious question.

Why would the top Democrats be calling out Attorney General Jeff Sessions for meeting with Kislyak on two occasions while they've also met with him on several occasions?

Did Chuck Schumer just talk about coffee and doughnuts to Putin when he came to New York to visit a gas station? Do you really think Putin came all the way to the U.S. just to see a gas station with Chuck Schumer tagging along, or do you think there may be more to the visit than meets the eye?

Sergey Kislyak has met with U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle but the left is pretending otherwise.

And when the Washington Post first wrote about the Sessions hearing, where the failed comedian, Sen. Al Franken, asked him about whether he spoke with the Russian ambassador while involved in Trump's campaign, why did the Washington Post write about the questioning, but not quote the actual question Franken asked Sessions?

Kislyak met with seven then-Democratic senators in a 2013 single sit-down, among other discussions, and he was a frequent visitor to the Obama White House.

What did he speak about with Obama? Was it about Obama having 'more flexibility'? Was this the former president's long-term plan for when he was out of office? A landmine, so to speak?

As I previous blogged, Claire McCaskill attacked Sessions, but she also met with Kislyak, as did all the Democrats pictured above. 

Sessions claimed in the confirmation hearing that he had no "communications" with Russian officials during his time as a Trump surrogate. That was the problem the Democrats pointed to, but Sessions rejects the idea that he misled Congress saying that he answered the question in the context of campaign-related discussions. He was not saying he never met with the Russian official in the context of his position as a Senator and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Like McCaskill, Jeff Sessions was merely 'doing his homework.'

In summary, I believe the Democrats are colluding with the Russians to get rid of Trump and his people. The idea that the left is going further and further in that direction and will soon be indistinguishable from communism may not be proof, but it sure is grist for the mill.

I say investigate Schumer and every other Democrat who met with Kislyak. And that includes Obama.


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Sessions, Russia and hypocrisy

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is getting backing from both sides of the aisle over leftists' calls for his resignation over revelations that he met with a Russian ambassador last year, which he omitted from recent congressional testimony. 

The Dumocrats are claiming the meeting was in concert with the Trump campaign.

Even Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)  gave Sessions an unintended boost after she demanded Sessions' resignation and claimed she never called or met with Russia's ambassador. But tweets resurfaced showed she lied--at least twice.

Other former colleagues came to the AG's defense backing his claim he only met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in his official capacity as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"I've met with the Russian ambassador with a group, in my capacity, with a group of other senators," Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told CNN. "That's in my official capacity. That's nothing. That's my job."

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said he'd spoken with "at least twenty ambassadors in the last six weeks."

He added that "It would have been very normal for Sessions, as a senator, to have talked to the Russian ambassador without discussing the election."

Old establishment leftists Chuck "Nostrils" Schumer and Nancy "Hands" Pelosi demanded Sessions resign. 

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told MSNBC that he'd met with "six ambassadors in the last five months." Although he never met with Kislyak, Cruz said he'd do it in a heartbeat.

The leftist rag Washington Post, first reported that Sessions met with Kislyak in July and September despite his testimony during his confirmation hearing that he'd never spoke with Russian officials during the time he was a campaign surrogate for then candidate Donald Trump.

He maintains that he never spoke about campaign matters with the ambassador, and the White House has backed him.

In a politically motivated move to drive a stake into Sessions' heart, McCaskill tweeted Thursday that she had "been on the Armed Services Com for 10 years. No call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever. Ambassadors call members of Foreign Rel. Com."

Except she lied.

Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review, uncovered 2 tweets  that McCaskill wrote in 2013 and 2015:

"Off to meeting w/Russian Ambassador. Upset about the arbitrary/cruel decision to end all U.S. adoptions, even those in process." McCaskill tweeted on Jan. 30, 2013

On Aug. 6, 2015 she tweeted: "Today calls with British, Russian, and German ambassadors re: Iran deal. #doingmyhomework."

True to liberal form, McCaskill blamed Twitter's character limit for the seeming disparity in her tweets, suggesting the limit prevented her from being more specific in Thursday's tweet, downplaying the significance of her own conversations with Russia's ambassador, and proving she has the credibility of a scorpion to a frog.


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