Amid all the talk about spying on President Donald Trump’s campaign, the president sat down with Fox News’ Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge on Thursday and was asked about what impact fired FBI Director James Comey may have had on events.
“I think that he did a terrible job,” Trump said in response. “I would say he probably led some kind of an effort, the word spying has been used — he probably was one of the people leading the effort on spying.”
Herridge interjected to say that was “a very serious charge.”
“I know, I know,” the president replied. “And we’ll find out whether or not it was true, and I think it could very well be true. But we’re gonna find out pretty soon.”
The New York Times reported this week the FBI sent an undercover agent posing as an assistant to meet with campaign aide George Papadopoulos in London. The curvy, flirtatious agent accompanied Cambridge professor Steve Halper, a bureau informer.
Papadopoulos spills spicy details behind NYT shock report: Obama admin ‘dispatched’ spies to pry him for dirt https://t.co/YX5KGEd05s
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) May 3, 2019
Trump was also asked if deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explained media reports that he secretly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, as former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe suggested.
Trump wasn’t biting, referring her to Rosenstein for that answer.
“I’d much rather have you ask him that question,” he said. “It sounds a little bit far-fetched frankly, but a lot of things, in this case, are far-fetched… but I got along with them and I think that question you’d probably have to ask him.”
In addition to promising that the country will “find out pretty soon” about whether he was spied on by the FBI, Trump said he would be allowing the declassification of some documents “very soon” related to potential misconduct, saying some federal officials “play very dirty.”
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“Yes, I’m going to be allowing declassification pretty soon,” Trump told Herridge during the special news alert on Fox News Channel. “I didn’t want to do it originally because I wanted to wait, because I know what they — you know I’ve seen the way they play. They play very dirty. So I decided to do it, and I’m going to be doing if very soon, far more than you would have even thought.”
Outside of CNN and MSNBC, most Americans are beginning to grasp that under the Obama administration, intelligence assets were directed at Trump’s campaign.
Attorney General William Barr said last month that he believed the Trump campaign was spied on under the Obama administration.
“I think spying did occur, yes. I think spying did occur,” Barr told members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee.
Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is certainly convinced, and she is calling for a “full accounting” of what the Obama White House knew.
“It’s beyond clear that Comey’s FBI authorized the spying of @realDonaldTrump’s campaign. This scandal is worse than Watergate, and it was perpetrated by Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s administration,” she tweeted Friday.
“We need a full accounting of what Obama and Biden knew and when they knew it.”
It's beyond clear that Comey’s FBI authorized the spying of @realDonaldTrump’s campaign.
This scandal is worse than Watergate, and it was perpetrated by Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s administration.
We need a full accounting of what Obama and Biden knew and when they knew it.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) May 3, 2019
She wasn’t alone.
The NYT article below looks like part of Stroyk’s campaign to prevent @realDonaldTrump from being President. Sure looks like part of the spying on the Trump campaign that Comey doesn’t seem to understand.? Just how far and how high up did it go.
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) May 2, 2019
Immediate answers needed:
Who authorized putting a spy in Trump’s campaign?
Did Obama know about this?
Did Comey? If so, will he be held accountable for lying under oath?
Why didn’t this come out earlier before the launching of the Mueller probe?
Did Hillary know?
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 2, 2019
Another thing McDaniel shared in light of the N.Y. Times bombshell story is that the evening news networks aren’t all that interested in the possibility that a presidential campaign was spied on — though we can predict their reaction if it were the Obama or Clinton campaign.
Yesterday we learned that Comey’s FBI sent undercover agents to spy on @realDonaldTrump’s campaign.
Not a SINGLE network evening news program mentioned it.
What did they cover instead?
*How to wash chicken
*Robocalls
*A rock climbing couple
*New Scrabble wordsRidiculous.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) May 3, 2019
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