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applegrove

(118,654 posts)
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 09:11 PM Mar 2017

Could Trump be on a fishing trip with his accusation of Obama wire-tapping

him? I mean everyone is coming out and denying it included CNN intelligence sources and the Obama team. Now Trump knows there is likely no tap of his phone calls from Trump Tower...he is free to lie about the content or metadata (who, when, where) of his phone calls.

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Could Trump be on a fishing trip with his accusation of Obama wire-tapping (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2017 OP
Phone calls are two-way communications. He doesn't know shit. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2017 #1
His Tweets tend to just be distractions. Motown_Johnny Mar 2017 #2
There's a difference between saying TubbersUK Mar 2017 #3
If Trump bothered to listen and read Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #4
My hunch is that he is playing to his Obama- hating base Tanuki Mar 2017 #5
 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
2. His Tweets tend to just be distractions.
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 09:16 PM
Mar 2017

I think we need to stay focused on the investigations which are already in progress.


TubbersUK

(1,439 posts)
3. There's a difference between saying
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 09:22 PM
Mar 2017

Obama didn't order a tap and saying there is no tap.

It's causing some confusion.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. If Trump bothered to listen and read
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 09:25 PM
Mar 2017

his daily briefing books,his info was right in front of him all the time.

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
5. My hunch is that he is playing to his Obama- hating base
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 09:42 PM
Mar 2017

of deplorables in order to de-legitimize what will soon become public knowledge. He owes his presidency to their deeply ingrained prejudices and knows they don't care about the truth. The same goes for the recent "Obama is staging a shadow coup" nonsense.

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