He's not making it up. Gah! This confirms there was a FISA warrant!

[Recursion]

Gah! The media have this backwards! He's not "asserting without evidence"; he's the President and can find these things out.

It's as bad as we thought: there was a FISA warrant against Trump last fall. He's just confirmed it on Twitter.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Or if he is making it up

then it's confirmed he's batshit crazy.

Well done Donnie, you checkmated yourself.

[Chasstev365]

2. Whoa, Whoa; you don't think Twitler understands what a FISA warrant is, do you?

[bunnies]

5. Not a chance.

I'm sure he also doesn't understand that he just declassified it either.

[Recursion]

7. Bingo

I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that

[bunnies]

10. Give 'em enough rope, as they say.

Fingers crossed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. If a FISA warrant was issued to tap Trump's phones,

that means the FISA court believed there was probable cause to believe that conversations on that line were related to criminal/national security concerns. Or maybe the tap was on the other end (the Russian Embassy); but either way a FISA warrant would be required if a US citizen were a party to the conversation. Is Trump so stupid that he doesn't understand why his phones would be tapped, if they actually were? He just spilled the beans on himself.

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4. Lindsey Graham was talking to a crowd...

He said there were one of two possibilities:

1) Obama illegally tapped Trump.
2) Obama's team produced evidence to the FISA court to legally tap Trump.

Graham is gonna find out, that's what senators do, he said.

I've got money on the constitutional law professor following the law, or number 2.

[Recursion]

6. Now, remember that in October, Reid was saying

that there was "shocking" information about Trump that would certainly come out soon. Reid was on the Joint Intelligence committee that gets briefed on FISA intercepts.

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9. It's all fixing to come out...

If you watch Rachael, she connects Putin to Donald in a real estate deal, and the new commerce secretary was involved. The Russians bailed Trump out.

I don't follow Reid too closely, I may have caught that story, I don't recall, but if the polls had shown Trump winning back then, I think more people would have voted.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. The FBI can order a FISA,

not the President. Graham just got rolled in his own Party Garbage talking points.

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11. They were all over him...

I think he was trying to make Obama look bad, but still leave himself an out.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. My take is,

we are seeing a major Constitutional Crisis unfolding right in front of us and it isn't Dinner time yet. Most Democrats have expected this to happen at any moment just by the progression of Trump's behavioral patterns. Sorry to say,said it last weekend to watch for something this weekend. Noticed his amping up his Tweets since Wednesday morning after the Press figured out he bullshited their on air Talents.

Some hot phone calls today,you think.

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14. Wasn't it just this week...

That they were flying high. Photo after photo of Ryan and Pence smirking their asses off while Trump talked about taking away people's health care.

That didn't last long.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Appears that was the Script

written by Steve Miller and Bannon. With Trump,it is a Staged Presentation and all about the Optics,that I figured out last night when MSNBC tried to get Tillertson to comment on a Foreign Policy issue. Something to the fact that Tillertson's comments had to cleared by the White House.

We have a Nixon on Roids my friend.

[Greywing]

12. IMHO he is afraid of some big revelation ...

and is trying to muddy the waters. That's what he constantly does. He knows what is out there and is just hoping to nullify the effects. The difference this time is that he's trying to get in front of it this time. Get ready for something yuge!

[stillcool]

15. no...it's worse.

intelligence agencies have Trump twisted up ike a pretzel. I hope they let him twist for a long time, and he tweets like a rat. He's a symptom of the rot in the republican party..not the disease. Tweet away!

[milestogo]

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