Spicer, minutes ago: Trump asking Congressional intel committees to investigate President Obama

[highplainsdem]

Four tweets, minutes ago:

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(1/4) Reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling.

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(2/4) President Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees

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(3/4) exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.

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(4/4) Neither the White House nor the President will comment further until such oversight is conducted.

[spanone]

1. out. of. their. fucking. minds.

[HipChick]

3. Deflect, Deflect...

[spanone]

6. more proof trump has no clue how the FISA court works...ignorance rules.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

56. They know. But they think Pres can rule like a dictator because that's how tRump operates.

tRump is a (incompetent) CEO and CEOs are used to barking orders that minions scurry to implement.

So they project onto Obama the same modus operandi even when it is not possible, especially since it fits the RWA alt-right world view.

[FarPoint]

57. This is Tweet BAIT

They are taking focus off of Russian Criminal Treason.

[HipChick]

2. Where's the evidence?

[sunonmars]

4. i bet you, Chaffetz, Nunes get right on that.....

[spanone]

23. probably driving into town as we speak....

[riversedge]

24. I want to scream. !!

[vlyons]

30. Hang in there

Don't freak out. Stay calm and confidently focused on what needs to be done. That is, stay involved with winning elections come 2018 and 2020. You c an be so much more effective when you can stay calm. Imagine that their stupid outrages evaporate faster than a cup of water poured into desert sand.

[caroldansen]

5. Obama is innocent, so no problem. trump is just trying to create a diversion to

Take the heat off himself because is heeeee innocent? Hmm.

[Else You Are Mad]

15. So was Hillary...

and look at what they did with the Benghzi investigations. I have no doubt that Obama will have the same treatment.

[Saboburns]

33. Exactly.

Trump is bullying us again today. Because no Democrats had brains enough, or guts, to call Donald Trump a Liar yesterday.

[Ms. Toad]

65. Did you miss the communication from Obama's representative? n/t

[Akamai]

76. Calling Trump's accusation "false" is almost calling it a lie.

And our national media should widely repeat that Obama response.

[Ms. Toad]

77. Calling it false is calling it a lie. n/t

[ginnyinWI]

7. well, here's another politically motivated investigation!

Is there one shred of evidence that any such wiretapping took place?? I think DT just needed a distraction from the Sessions thing.

[Scarsdale]

88. Russians

There are Russians LIVING in tRump Tower. What if they turn out to be the ones who did this? Russian mobsters frequent there, too, for gambling parties. Maybe Maleria was collecting evidence of his adultery for divorce proceedings?

[BumRushDaShow]

8. So they just manufactured their talking points for the day

[gademocrat7]

9. He is insane.

[OldHippieChick]

10. Only way they can make it appear Cheetohead

is sane is to latch onto his hallucination. How totally pathetic and shameful.

[mcar]

73. This!

It's a batshit crazy feedback loop.

[Else You Are Mad]

11. Sadly...

The GOP will investigate Obama and he will be hauled in front of Congress multiple times, while Trump will not be investigated.

[vlyons]

36. Obama will not be investigated

because he knows far too much about Trump's treason.

[Aviation Pro]

12. Hey, Melissa

Fuck you.

[3_Limes]

34. ??? Who's Melissa? n/t

[Aviation Pro]

47. A reference

To a SNL personality, who portrayed Spice girl. Orange Dump hates the character so if the shit sticks to the shoe wear it.

[tblue37]

48. The reference is to Melissa McCarthy's brilliant impersonation of Spicer on Saturday Night Live. nt

[cilla4progress]

13. Who didn't see this

Coming?

This is what dictators do. Throw their predecessor in jail.

[dalton99a]

37. Yep.

[DURHAM D]

14. Easter is coming Sean and your old

gig is available. You were much better at playing a bunny rabbit than at playing a press secretary.

[HAB911]

16. Now clear what he's up to

more smoke

I hope there were FISA wiretaps, please please please

[Mr. Ected]

17. This will not curtail the ongoing investigation into Trump's nefarious Russian affairs

This is simply red meat for the base, to distract them and to allow their propaganda arm to continue to deflect and spin the news in a way to complicate, obfuscate and ultimately normalize Trump's criminal behavior before and after the election.

[wishstar]

18. This is exactly why Pres. Obama did NOT reveal more about Trump/Russia stuff before election

Mitch McConnell threatened he would accuse Pres. Obama of political interference in election if Pres. Obama pushed to release more of the Trump/Russia investigation before election. Pres. Obama did not want any backlash of being accused of meddling for political reasons, thinking it could hurt Hillary rather than help.

But now that everything is blowing up in their faces with pressure for independent Trump investigation, they are pushing this garbage as last ditch attempt at distraction

[FakeNoose]

52. I hope this is true

I hope Obama is holding the TRUMP card, and waiting for a chance to play it.

[Zambero]

90. Obama would not be holding it

He may be aware of it, but only on the basis of intelligence gathered while he was president. The fact that Obama chose not to go public with substantiated reports of Russian interference before the 2016 election demonstrates that he is extremely cautious in these matters, perhaps too cautious.

[Tanuki]

19. Trump has often said that his early mentor Roy Cohn told him

"If someone hits you, punch back ten times as hard." It's just a reflex he has now, with no regard for truth or justice. Roy Cohn had no qualms about ruining honest prople's lives with lies and innuendo, and neither does that ignorant sociopath squatting in the White House and frittering away millions each weekend at Loser-a-Lago. Sad!

[riversedge]

20. So we've moved on from Lock Her Up (Clinton) to Lock Him Up (Obama). We're a country run by thugs an

Last night my twitter feed was overrun with Trump bots-all yelling for an investigation and lock up Obama.
This world has gone mad. His fans listen to his lies and make up more!



Elliott Lusztig‏ @ezlusztig 12m12 minutes ago

Elliott Lusztig Retweeted Donald J. Trump

So we've moved on from Lock Her Up (Clinton) to Lock Him Up (Obama). We're a country run by thugs and con men. How sad for all of us.

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dominic dominowski‏ @DomindoCom 10m10 minutes ago

@ezlusztig "tapp"? He must like the extra pee!
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james michael‏ @jasmike215 11m11 minutes ago

@ezlusztig #TrumpRussia This is a national nightmare. The GOP needs to acknowledge the problem and work with @TheDemocrats to secure our democracy now.
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OuisieM‏ @OuisieM 11m11 minutes ago

@ezlusztig Yep. 45 has mob boss mindset.
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[Mr. Ected]

21. I guess this was Bannon's solution last night to the problem at hand

Keep lying and their fake news will do the rest.

[sinkingfeeling]

22. I cannot tell you how angry this makes me. They are the

scum of the earth! Trying to turn the tables. Let's start with investigating the first crime: Russia hacking into the DNC and Hillary's emails. Then 'B', who got that information and how did they use it? 'C', who made the contacts and what was the exchange? 'D' who has lied under oath?

[Grammy23]

32. tRump is indeed a very sick man. His jealousy and envy of President Obama is palpable.

So he is going to do everything possible to undo and destroy his legacy. Anything he can do to sully our former president's name and track record will be fair game to this despicable man/child.i wish that his 'true believers" could drop the blinders so they can see this awful man for what he is. But alas, the same man who so gleefully works to destroy Obama will just as eagerly cultivate his followers with the same twisted and manipulative techniques. He is quite the master at his task and until someone steps in to say we've all had enough of this nonsense, he will continue his mind numbing rampage.

[randome]

25. The President will not comment further about this? Good one, Spice-Boy! Now pull the other one!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[KewlKat]

28. that's how they do things.....the Con lays the egg and then they let it rot.....

he's made the charge now the poor innocent people he accuses must try to defend......it never works well for the one that is smeared. We must somehow change this message......George Lakoff has some ideas.

[dalton99a]

46. Classic technique he used on people all his life.

[tblue37]

49. LBJ once said his campaign should accuse his opponent of f***ing pigs. When

an aide said that they knew it wasn't true, LBJ said he knew it wasn't, but he wanted to see all the headlines screaming, "X denies f***ing pigs!"

[KewlKat]

93. YES, this is what Lakoff says we SHOULDN'T do....repeat the false statement when

fighting back.

[tblue37]

94. The GOP makes full use of language specialists and psychologists specializing in

propaganda techniques--and they pay them well.

The Democrats just ignore them. Lakoff can't even get a meeting with top Dems, despite his many articles and public statements advising them how to use language more effectively.

[Cha]

26. Lame attempt to take the heat off themselves.. they Can't Stand IT!

[vlyons]

27. Distractions, distractions, distractions

They must be sweating bullets to change the subject. I'm betting that the next salvo from the IC will be a doozey. Trump's ship is going down.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

29. Obama used his executive authority to what?

Lose?

[mountain grammy]

31. They look desperate, because they are!

[jpak]

35. The higher the monkey climbs...

etc.

[sarah FAILIN]

38. He will come after Hillary again before too long

As soon as he needs another distraction to appease his followers. I always knew it. He would throw his own mother under the bus to deflect attention from himself. Now my suggestion that Obama pardon her to protect her from constant harassment doesn't seem as far fetched as everyone thought.

[dalton99a]

42. I'm sure that was part of the conversation between him and the elf in Florida

[theglammistress]

39. I'm so sick of this shit

I really just am fed up.

Now will the rank and file Republicans circle the wagon on this bullshit, deflect and demure or denounce?

Again I say, we need to tie this bullshit around their necks! Traitors one and all!

[dalton99a]

40. The POS president is governing like a mob boss.

[WinkyDink]

71. "like"?

[Baitball Blogger]

41. Yeah, Obama is in big trouble. BIG trouble.

They have a picture of him planting snooping devices in Trump tower.
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[Thrill]

43. Reports? What Reports. Trump started it

lol

[Ms. Toad]

68. No - one of the fake news outlets did. He just tweeted it so it got more notice. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

44. Not very skilled at 4D chess, I see.

Bring on the independent prosecutor and we'll see what you jokers' got.

[salin]

45. This is a two-fer-one attempt

1) attempt to knock down the polling of Obama as far higher than 45s;

2) attempt to "strike back" (a Trump classic) with no understanding (he has had 24 hours to figure it out) what would be called into question - about himself/his campaign per FISA documents.

I predict that if it proceeds forward with an eager Congress who was so ready to go after Hilary that it will easily harness that energy to go after Obama, that info will leak from Congress to the WH to back out as info looks bad, or it will be dropped before it gets to that point.

I hope that it goes forward because this is a leaky admin and what gets leaked to the WH (from Congress) will get leaked to the press - and then some.

Of course this admin would pursue yet another self-inflicted wound.

I have seen the proverbial death by a thousand cuts. I have never before seen where so many of the cuts are self-inflicted.

[GoCubsGo]

58. I hope it goes forward, too.

Obviously, they haven't paid attention to the past eight years, and don't realize that they are fucking with the wrong person when they go after President Obama. He has been miles ahead of them all along, and they might as well just go ahead and slit their own throats now, rather than slowly doing it over the next few months. Seriously. Spare the country the remaining fallout of your fast-moving train wreck, and turn yourselves in now.

[narnian60]

64. +1

Well said.

[Kaleva]

50. This might be the best they can do at damage control

They ask congress to investigate claims made by Trump and say they'll make no further comment about Sunkist Stalin's crazy antics until said Congressional investigation is completed.

" Neither the White House nor the President will comment further until such oversight is conducted."

The initial reports said that Trump's staff was caught by surprise by his tweets so I don't think this is a planned maneuver in an attempt to shift focus.

[Bucky]

51. Haha! This is hilarious ! "The president will not comment"

I wonder what that conversation looked like, Bannon and Spicer and Priebus trying to convince Trump to quit posting boloney on his Twitter account.

"Hand it over, sir, please. Please, sir, or I'll tell Putin on you!"

[liberal N proud]

53. One more week of the Russian Connection inquiries and he will be a mumbling heap

Right along with trump.

[MoonRiver]

54. Bring it on you Orange Fucker!

Only thing that will come out, is that you and your toadies are TRAITORS!

[AgadorSparticus]

55. They are so good at propaganda. But you can't investigate based on allegations

This is a weak attempt at saving Twitler from his weekend tweet.

[BeckyDem]

59. He doesn't care how outlandish the lies. His entire campaign was built on lies.

Say anything to deflect from his problems. He is a dangerous man, willing to create havoc and distrust, the constant cries of fake news, the media is the enemy. It's only March 5! I have never seen anything quite like it in my life.

[bluecollar2]

60. careful what you ask for asshole...

Spicer and his pals are amateurs.

Taking on President Obama requires street smarts and intellectual agility.

This crew has neither...

[superpatriotman]

61. Sure lets investigate everyone

See what comes out.

There are bones in the r's closets very deep and very illegal.

[Freethinker65]

62. Investigating Breitbart "reporters" could be a hoot

They would need to be included because their "sources" (hahaha) would be critical to any investigation. The National Enquirer has also had some headlines deserving of wasting tax dollars to get to the bottom of...
Funny if it were not so sad

[Ms. Toad]

63. Right, because the appropriate way to ask Congress to do something is by twitter. n/t

[bora13]

67. twitter notary

next thing ya know they will be asking congress to make
an official position to notarize twitlers tweets.

call it "secretary of the shit just got real"

[delisen]

66. This is business bully tactics. They are petrified and trying to to blow smoke

Next their enablers in Congress are going to have to make their personal decisions and it will depend upon
1. how much they might be implicated in a crime-either the Trump circle crimes or other stuff that might become public
2. who is going to win- Trump or America
3. how scared they are (mostly they are bully types-lots of bravado not much bravery

The Clinton investigators and those refusing and avoiding investigating Trump, early and vociferous supporters of Trump, those who may have been rewarded with cabinet positions for family members.

The first cousins, Sonny Perdue (former GA governor and new Cabinet member (Agriculture) and David Perdue (senator and former Family Dollar and Reebok executive) were Trump backers from the start.

Mitch McConnell, the infamous Senate leader who, whose spouse Chao is now in the cabinet (Transportation). Chao family (background Taiwan) fortune based on international shipping. As a powerful politician McConnell has managed to get re-elected for years while keeping Kentucky one of the ten poorest states, which delivered their electoral votes to Donald trump.

[WinkyDink]

69. The clue is in #4: Because there WILL BE NO "OVERSIGHT" ("overseeing" is the correct form), Trump

is off the hook about COMMENTING!

[mcar]

70. "Neither the WH nor the President will comment further"

Sure you won't.

[Takket]

72. 45's audacity is mind blowing

Imagine someone who is a murder, standing there over the body while still holding the bloody knife. A cop shows up. The typical murder tries to make some excuse about finding the body his way when he walked in. 45 not only doesn't deny it, he points at the cop and says "You killed this person!"

[mnmoderatedem]

74. ah yes

"Neither the White House nor the President will comment further until such oversight is conducted"

now they have manufactured their excuse to not have to reply to Trump's insane tweets yesterday.

[orangecrush]

75. Projection and deflection

Their stock in trade

[dchill]

78. A heady blend of deflection and projection!

As Guy Fieri says, "On point!"

[OldHippieChick]

79. During his entire campaign he had to repeat the same

7-10 lies (no, I haven't stopped to count) over and over again. It lasted so long and he thought he could just keep doing that. Now that his lies are being uncovered, he has realized he's going to have to come up w/ new ones to deflect attention from his true agenda and treasonous behavior. He will run out of new lies soon as he has little imagination and his lies grow ever more outrageous.

[Metro135]

80. Yes, Sean, they are troubling . . .

BECAUSE THEY'RE INSANE!!

[OldRedneck]

81. The Big Lie

We have seen this time and again. The GOP is a master at it. Other masters are Hitler, Goebells and Stalin.

It's "The Big Lie." Make a claim that is so outrageous that people will assume that it cannot be a lie, and so accept it as truth.

Strongly assert the lie -- repeat the lie time and again -- all your people repeat the lie -- if you control any media outlets, make certain they repeat the lie -- send your minions out to the talk shows to repeat the lie. Massage available data to 'prove' the lie as being true. Reframe vigorous denial as proof of guilt.

[The Sand Reckoner]

82. Oh, I hope they're stupid enough to request a complete investigation

Because if Trump was wiretapped, it would only have been because there was a boatload of evidence already for his collusion with the Russians, and it would ALL be made public as part of the investigation they're calling for, whereas now, the proceedings of the FISA court are still secret.

Oh please...please..be that stupid.

[eShirl]

83. They act like they know they're caught, as Nance said.

How much longer is Congress going to keep going along with this Fake President?

[Happyhippychick]

84. While they're at it, tell them to find the birth certificate!

[longship]

85. OMFG! Madness. MADNESS!!!! nt

[Demsrule86]

86. They are so stupid.

If there was a wiretapp...and their may be...it was because a FISA court thought Trump ET AL were engaged in criminal activities...IE selling out the election/country to the Russians for dollars and because of blackmail of the groper in chief. The entire GOP party is covering for him...don't forget they could release his taxes ten minutes from now if they wanted to.

[gordianot]

87. It has to give an idea how serious the Trump revelation must be.

This reminds me of a school yard fight where five kids picked a fight with one student. The victim took on all 5 and won. No martial arts training, multiple witnesses saw what happened, teachers witnessed what happened. In spite parents demanded this student be suspended longer than their children.

The Drama king vs No Drama Obama Constitutional Lawyer.

[Zambero]

89. The oldest trick in the book

Turning the tables by making an unfounded allegation with absolutely no evidence, then holding it to be the gospel truth until someone disapproves the fabrication. So red meat conspiracy theory = perceived fact = outrage. In the alternative universe of Birtherism, eternal IRS audits, and 3 million illegal votes for Hillary, this deflection attempt comes as no surprise.

[George II]

91. In your dreams, spicey

[dhill926]

92. well, this is gonna be fun to watch unfold....

[cally]

95. The Executive Branch POS orders the Legislative Branch to investigate???????

Does no one in the administration understand our government? POS can order investigation by Justice Department, DHS, appoint special prosecutor, etc. but cannot order the Legislative or Judicial Branch. Oh wait, the patsies in leadership probably will take marching orders from the dictator.

This is treason and I want all to go down with Trump.

[Solly Mack]

96. Oh, shut up, Sphincter-man.

You don't stand your ground in a burning building.

Fuck you and your cowardly boss.


I'm so mad, I'm taking it to social media with some serious demands and people better heed my words! (LMAO)

(stomps his little feet while shaking his tiny hands)

[JudyM]

97. Yeah, because tRump's not already wasting enough taxpayer money.

[Maru Kitteh]

98. Free fall

Strains of Tom Petty come to mind.

I'm gonna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for awhile

And I'm free, free fallin'
Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

The splat should be pretty spectacular to witness.