Schumer: Trump Is 'In Trouble' Whether His Wiretap Claims Are True Or Not

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By ESME CRIBB Published MARCH 5, 2017, 11:21 AM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Sunday that President Donald Trump is "in trouble" whether his claims that President Barack Obama's administration obtained a wiretap on Trump Tower are true or not.

"If he falsely spread this kind of misinformation, that is so wrong," Schumer told Chuck Todd on NBC News' "Meet the Press." He said that doing so is "beneath the dignity of the presidency" and "really hurts people's view of government."

"On the other hand, if it's true, it's even worse for the President," he said. "Because that means that a federal judge, independently elected, has found probable cause that the President, or people on his staff, had probable cause to have broken the law or to have interacted with a foreign agent."

"So either way, the President makes it worse with these tweets," Schumer said. "And either way, Chuck, the President's in trouble."

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[dalton99a]

1. There is no "if" in "If he falsely spread this kind of misinformation"

[rzemanfl]

4. Exactly. n/t

[BadgerMom]

13. +1000

[diva77]

26. it smacks of something out of the Karl Rove playbook

Rove’s Science of Dirty Tricks
Posted on Aug 14, 2007

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070814_roves_science_of_dirty_tricks

snip... —In 1986, while working for Texas Republican gubernatorial hopeful William Clements, Rove claimed that Rove’s personal office had been bugged, most likely by the campaign of incumbent Democratic Gov. Mark White. Nothing was proved, but the negative press, weeks before the election, helped Rove’s man win a narrow victory. FBI agent Greg Rampton removed the bug, disrupting any attempt to properly investigate who planted it....snip

[joet67]

28. He's just slow-rolling the information so that we can get an extra few days of disastrous coverage.

Plus, it takes a long time for the dimwits that vote republican to digest it all. That's fine with me. The longer we can drag this out, the closer we are to 18, and certain gains. Plus, that shortens the time Pence will have to do his own type of damage to our country.

Not a chance in hell Pence can ever get elected on his own, so he needs to be knee-capped from get-go.

[lagomorph777]

33. The Democratic Tsunami starts in 2017.

VA and NJ are having major statewide elections.

Get your butts to the precincts this year, VA and NJ Dems!!

[mobeau69]

2. OMG this stuff is getting posted fast!

Impressive.

[caroldansen]

3. We love you Chuck!

[mobeau69]

6. You might want to add "Schumer" just so there's no confusion on which Chuck.

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Chuck Chuck bo-buck

Banana-fana fo-f...you know the rest.

[caroldansen]

10. Thank you. That was very cute! But it was for a reason I said it that way. And we love you, too!

[Cryptoad]

16. Sounds like a Trollist type Answer.........

[littlemissmartypants]

22. It did but.

I am a Pollyanna. It reminded me of high school.

Chuck cheese? Chuck who? Chuck which?

If you don't watch the video the reference is lost and it's confusing to the reader. The side note of the child's rhyme reference is a pressure valve, imo. If we don't find the incongruity in the situation we may spontaneously combust.

I would like to offer the point that the background information on the video needs clarification.

Thank you for the post Cryptoad.
♡

[BeyondGeography]

5. Schumer has an orderly mind

It's refreshing.

[DUFan]

7. I don't think Trump is claiming that Obama sought a legal wiretap.

He said in his tweets yesterday that this was a Watergate style illegal bug or wiretap. He is accusing Obama of breaking the law and spying on him. I think something has been revealed to Trump, something that he thinks no one could know about unless they learned it by spying on the rooms and phones at Trump Towers.

[DownriverDem]

12. Nothing revealed

I think trump et al is full of crap.

[erronis]

14. Excellent. Pithy and to the point. 'nuff said.

[Scarsdale]

19. Russia

Maybe he WAS bugged - by Russia to make sure he was following orders. Maybe his wife had him bugged, preparing for a divorce? Maybe her father did it, to cozy up to Putin. There are all kinds of possibilities. If he has nothing to hide, why is he so freaked out? Was his Russian pee-pee party discussed?

[elmac]

24. From what I understand

tRump was responding to a tweet from one of the wingnut talkshow hosts claiming that Obama had his phones tapped.

[Cosmocat]

25. He's preemptively framing it for his pods

nm

[paleotn]

27. Then he has to prove it....

...Oh! There was a FISA warrant? That's interesting. What's in it? Wait....for additional leaks about a FISA warrant(s), the reasoning behind the warrant(s). And more importantly what was discovered during the investigation. What a fucking idiot. The moral of this story is, when you'd rather something NOT be made public, don't fucking go there! Also, don't go out of your way to piss off the IC community. With a little work, they can figure out what agent orange had for breakfast on Feb. 17, 2015.

[NewJeffCT]

31. Agree - that's what I think

he's going to claim that Obama secretly and illegally wiretapped Trump Tower and went behind the FBI, CIA, NSA or whoever and maybe had a few loyalists help him bug Trump Tower, a la Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible.

[Ellipsis]

8. That seemed rather telling that there indeed is a FISA warrant...

... in how he phrased his answers and looked at the camera.

[DownriverDem]

11. We all know

This is more about diverting our attention away from trump et al, jeff sessions and the Russian connections. Bannon is behind this diversion crap too.

[randr]

15. Chuck is spot on, the central point is that Trump is in trouble

The alleged wiretaps are a diversion.

[Cryptoad]

17. Chuck who?

[Canoe52]

23. Which Chuck?

[SHRED]

18. "If"???

Why doesn't Chuck come out strong denouncing Obama involvement?
That's the tRump claim.

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. "....are true or not" ??????????????

Where does that come from, Chuck?

[Loge23]

21. And there's this...

The orange menace has not been back at the tower since the inauguration. Coincidence? I think not.

[wishstar]

29. Interesting- and he's been conducting inner-circle weekend meetings at Mar a Lago

He is paranoid and probably thinks Mar a Lago a safer place for coordinating their most devious plans (esp. Russian stuff)

[riversedge]

30. With all the leaks, I am surprised he is going back to the WH in DC.

[Kimchijeon]

32. yep, either way he is in trouble!