Posted on 06/07/2017 1:06:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told an audience in Australia Wednesday that in his view, the Russia scandal facing the Trump administration is far worse than the Watergate scandal that President Nixon faced.
"I think [if] you compare the two, that Watergate pales really in my view compared to what we're confronting now," Clapper said.
According to a transcript of his remarks, Clapper said he called then-President-elect Trump when Trump dismissed the intelligence community's assessment that Russia tried to meddle in the 2016 election. Clapper said Trump called intelligence officials "Nazis" in an apparent attempt to attack anyone questioning the legitimacy of the election.
"I tried, naively it turned out, to appeal to his higher instincts, by pointing out that the intelligence community he was about to inherit is a national treasure," Clapper said.
"Ever transactional, [Trump] simply asked me to publicly refute the infamous 'dossier,' which I could not and would not do," he added.
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Clapper is a lying sack of dog crap.
What an absolute asshole.
Let’s see..President Trump did NOTHING wrong, there was ZERO collusion, yet this pales in comparison to Watergate, LOL these liberals are LUNATICS..hey can we investigate fast and furious and Benghazi..oh yeah, according to liberals those are big nothingburgers..and people DIED in both scandals too
ESPECIALLY when you took after the wrong TRUMP:
Because maybe they have the wrong TRUMP???
Clinton aide and Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin connected State Department officials to a Russian cultural organization, per a request by Clinton Foundation donor, Eddie Trump (no relation to President Trump).
Idiot. Russia gate is fake. Now if he wants to discuss the bugging of President Trump, the Whitehouse, those he was choosing for his team, etc., THEN we can compare to Watergate.
Otherwise it is a Deep State circle jerk.
Send him to Botany Bay!
Hey! James Clapper!
Click the Pic
Seems like Clapper may have been the ringmaster of the Russsian scam.
I was thinking the same thing.
... the intelligence community and DC establishment waging war against American citizens.
That is the real scandal of American history. That is the highest form of treason.
Clapper is an idiot.
I would have to agree with Clapper. Watergate does, indeed, pale to the Trump/Russia scandal. That is, as long as we are talking about the surveillance conducted by the intelligence community on American citizens who were ultimately and illegally unmasked. But I don’t think that Clapper had THAT scandal in mind.
It’s obvious that Russia is paying Clapper to lie!
(See libtards, we can play that game also!)
Absolutely.
They always seem to miss actually describing WHAT LAW WAS BROKEN.
It sounds like Clapper was personally offended that Trump did not give his precious (”national treasure”) intelligence community sufficient deference after they circulated a slanderous dossier about him.
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