Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) on Trump's wiretapping tweets: "We are in the midst of a civilization warlike

[kpete]

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[dhol82]

1. Wonder how much he is hoping it was an illegal wiretap?

[dchill]

3. He KNOWS it's not.

[dhol82]

4. Hope he is an honorable man.

[The Sand Reckoner]

15. He's a lifelong Republican

so no, he's not.

[dhol82]

19. Agree

So then we have to wonder what the political theater is for this statement.

[meadowlander]

22. Repubs outside the inner circle smelling blood in the water?

[brush]

6. Yes. That's as good a CYA press release that I've seen lately. I think he senses...

things are closing in on trump and he wants to make it clear he's clear of any blood spatter.

[Cosmocat]

12. He didn't have to conment

I take this as a positive ...

[dchill]

2. I'm good with that.

[liberal N proud]

5. There it is, republican hypocrisy

We're are this assholes calls for how serious the Russian/trump ties are?

[Squinch]

7. I think you read this the way I did at first. When I read it the second time, I think

calling for investigation into the Russia/trump ties are is exactly what he is calling for.

I think he's saying that Trump either needs to put up or shut up, or if it's FISA we need to find out what trump did that was so bad it needed a FiSA tap.

[Juliusseizure]

24. Agree

That's how I read it too. Also, based on Wikipedia, he was ready to vote for Clinton or a third party candidate ahead of Trump, so doesn't appear to be a fan.

[deepcover]

8. What he has done with his tweet

is possibly opened up the can of worms for all to see. A FISA court order is something that is usually highly secretive. By him bringing it out in public he has essentially declassified this order (him being president and all) If this order does exist it is now fair game for the public to see. Hopefully the are multiple groups asking for the disclosure of this wiretap. I knew all along that he would bring about his own fall. We just needed to give him room.

[Alice11111]

16. I can't believe that DT would be so stupid.

Stupid, vindictive, aggressive & impulsive. Bad combination!

[LuckyLib]

18. He has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. He doesn't understand

the function of court authorization of wiretaps, has no idea that a President himself cannot "order" wiretaps, has no clue that he has just opened up his own shitcan of worms. Bring it on Trumpy! We want to know what it's all about!

[Alice11111]

23. Own "shitcan of worms," HaHaHa

Yeah, he thought Prez could order wiretaps. It's like when he said, we wanted out of TPP because of China.

You would think after that one, he would have learned to check his facts before he opened his fat ugly mug. Even worse, he tweeted it to the whole bloody world!
I bet Mexico is ROFL with this one.

[TubbersUK]

9. NYT says WH trying to get hold of the FISA warrant

Link to tweet

://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/838144558995210240

[TomCADem]

10. Sasse Wins Either Way...

...if there was some sort of illegal wiretap (extremely unlikely), then Sasse does handsprings and delights in talking about it on Fox News. If it turns out that the FBI had obtained such a warrant through FISA (far more likely), then Sasse lets Trump essentially impeach himself, and gets what he wanted, President Pence while also putting distance between himself and Trump.

Its a win-win for Sasse.

[nolabels]

13. Only for some semblance of winning the day (but probably not)

Probably if they had AJ that was legit, not in recuse and or involved they might be able to get a hold of it. As of now it kind of looks more like a case of Judicial privilege taking place. What's trump going to do now fire all the judges

[Oldtimeralso]

11. Dear Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE)

Are you a Republican or an American?

It seems like now you have to be one or the other!

[trof]

14. Word salad???

jeez

[OilemFirchen]

17. Barack Obama did not order an "illegal wiretap". Full stop.

That suggestion is, of course, utter nonsense.

[Blue_true]

20. No Ben, your side has jumped too far off the ledge.

The only solution is hope that the sanest of you were wearing bungiecords.

[lindysalsagal]

21. They have tv news in nebraska?

Like, real TV???

Good to know.