'Bigger than Watergate!' Trump launches furious Twitter rant accusing Obama of election meddling

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory




BRAD REED
05 MAR 2018 AT 08:27 ET

President Donald Trump on Monday unleashed a furious tweet accusing former President Barack Obama of doing too much and too little to stop Russia from helping him get elected president.

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Directly after accusing Obama of doing too much to interfere in the election to help Hillary Clinton win, Trump said that Obama didn’t do enough to stop Russia from undermining Clinton’s candidacy.

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Link to tweet

Despite his furious rants, however, the facts contradict the president’s theory that Obama launched an investigation into his campaign to help Hillary Clinton win.

In the first place, the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign was not publicly revealed until months after Trump had been elected president. What’s more, former FBI Director James Comey did publicly reveal that his agency was taking a fresh look at Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server just 11 days before the 2016 election — while not mentioning anything about Trump’s campaign being investigated.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/bigger-watergate-trump-launches-furious-twitter-rant-accusing-obama-election-meddling/

[Liberalagogo]

1. He's definitely guilty

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His projection is so BEYOND obvious now.

[PatSeg]

18. I agree

I already thought he was guilty, but his constant denials and projection makes him look more guilty than I'd imagined.

[underpants]

2. So the golf wasn't relaxing ?

The guy counts anything within the flagstick as a gimme

[Scarsdale]

3. Yes, this IS bigger than Watergate.

The entire tRump family is up to their necks in illegal deeds. Nixon had a good family, free of scandals. Pat Nixon NEVER had nude photos circulating worldwide. The Nixon daughters married fine, upstanding men. Nothing like this despicable, scum associating tRump clan.

[hlthe2b]

6. Nixon also had frequently, for all his corruption, been a competent President with policies that

set a course toward more progressive future including cleaner environment as but one example. That's why he's in the middle of the pack on the Presidential rankings, (27th with historians, 2017 and 33 with Political Scientists, 2018).

[lagomorph777]

14. Yup - Watergate destroyed 42 careers.

This one may destroy an entire political party, and the NRA (#NRAROUBLES).

[Scarsdale]

19. IF we are lucky!!

This will destroy the entire corrupt, Russian money grubbing "party" I just wish I could rid myself of the notion that McConnell would enjoy being in prison, with all the guys.

[Nitram]

4. The paranoid in the White House is beginning to come apart at the seams.

Won't be long before he guns someone down on 5th Avenue just to watch him die.

[vercetti2021]

5. The water's getting redder

When you smell more blood, get more desperate

[Botany]

7. Those things that Trump is Tweeting about are Mutually Exclusive

If nothing happened as per Russia/Trump then why is it President Obama's
fault that he did nothing?

Hello 9-11, Nobody robbed the bank and btw how come the police didn't stop
the bank robbery?

BTW Obama imposed sanctions on Russia and Trump has blocked them so much for
Obama doing nothing.

[orangecrush]

8. He is freaking

Something is up.

Or, he is just tweeting whatever is on Faux again.

[toddwv]

9. Cut him a break guys...

Mueller has just issued subpoenas for a bunch of information from various people.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/special-counsel-wants-documents-trump-numerous-campaign-associates-n853386

The noose is getting tighter and Donnie Dorko is feeling the heat.

[PatSeg]

20. Whoa, while we sleep

That must be very intimidating from Trump's perspective. This investigation is really snowballing.

[Mrs. Overall]

10. He has insisted for months that Russia "meddling" is a HOAX.

[bluestarone]

11. the end is near!

and he can't handle it!!!!

[Docreed2003]

12. Yes Donnie...your actions are unprecidented and bigger than Watergate!

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Trump's Cartoonish Story Line

Is it wise to let it play out? someone should prick that bubble

It's like a poorly written episode of "Fractured Fairy Tales" from the old Rocky & Bullwinkle series

Trump is in the "way-off" machine

[Blue Owl]

23. A glimpse into the "pea brain"

[dalton99a]

15. From the traitor who threw the sanctions bill in the trash

[bigmonkey]

16. "No investigation without proof of wrongdoing."

Saw this quite a lot during the W. Bush years. It keys off of the emotional attachment to "innocent until proven guilty", but extends it to such an extent that it would preclude all investigation. It's a horrifying, interesting, effective, and pernicious piece of propaganda. I see people fall for it all the time - perhaps DTs egregious example will help flag this as the technique it is.

[jberryhill]

22. Yep

The presumption of innocence in a criminal proceeding merely sets the playing field for "who must prove what" in a trial.

It is not "words to live by", and you are correct that if there was some general legal duty to consider all persons to be innocent, then no crimes would ever be investigated or prosecuted. The standards for various levels of a criminal investigation are "reasonable suspicion" (for taking a quick look at something, brief detention, etc.) up to "probable cause" (for obtaining search warrants or making an arrest).

Quite obviously, if you see someone go into a bank with a gun and hold it up, you are under no sort of requirement to consider that person "innocent until proven guilty". That's for the jury when they walk into a court. You, of course, know that person to be guilty because you saw them rob the bank.

[bigmonkey]

24. Thanks for this reply.

I wish this was generally understood, I think it would help quite a great deal.

[SWBTATTReg]

17. tRUMP sounds like a dead man walking

He's cried wolf so many times that no one is listening to him anymore, with perhaps the exception of Mueller (I hope Mueller is listening). I'm afraid that tRUMP is going to illegally call out the troops for some made up excuse when the 2018 elections gets a little more closer to reality.

tRUMP exactly the kind of egomaniac that would do this. When this happens I'll see what the republican controlled congress does then...their true complicity of their nature will be revealed to all, and the republicans will have lost their chances for any governing ever in this country. Record protests and mobs shall greet the federal troops if they even leave their bases, and tRUMP and the republicans will be dumbfounded by the sheer amount of hatred and protests that their actions have caused.

Maybe a wish on my birthday cake, but in reality, a kind of scary thought that we've gotten to this point.

Good portents do come, based on the fact that so many formerly held legislative seats held by the gop runts are now held by democrats.

GOTV!

[turbinetree]

21. Come March 24, 2018 I will have two signs............you have blood on your hands NRA

Two your fucking traitor with blood on your hands and to this country




November 2018 cannot get here fast enough