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Of Course, Obama Knew of the Spying on the Trump Campaign
Townhall.com ^ | May 27, 2018 | Bruce Bialosky

Posted on 05/27/2018 5:42:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

The earth-shattering story that the MSM has attempted in all regards to ignore that then-existing Administration was spying on a presidential campaign broke a couple weeks ago and the spy has now been identified. The logical end question has now been asked -- Did President Obama know that his spying agencies had infiltrated the Trump campaign? The unequivocal answer is YES.

Do I have definitive proof that Obama knew? No. And we never will because Valerie Jarrett kept him away from the parties at hand. But I base my conclusion on 40 years of doing this and eight years of studying the Obama Administration and their disregard for the norms that had been established before them due to their thirst to thrust their ideological platform on the American people.

There are four principle reasons why the Obama team thought they could get away with spying on Trump:

  1. The fawning press would never question them. They had gone through more than eight years of the press tripping over each other lauding their actions, so why would the press question them now?
  2. Their prior actions (which are delineated below) went by with meager questioning and virtually no accusations of impropriety.
  3. They assumed Hillary was going to win and thus the improper actions would never be reviewed. They had to go to Plan B on this once she lost and accuse Trump and his people of gross negligence and then their spying on Trump would be buried in the hysteria regarding Russian Collusion.
  4. The biggest, boldest reason was the Black Card. The Obama Administration had used this so many times it became de rigueur. The whimpering press would never question the Black President, the Black Attorney General nor the Black White House Adviser because of their white guilt. This is a form of reverse racism. If you did question them you would automatically be branded a racist. In fact, me just pointing this out opens me up to being branded by the Obama acolytes as a racist.

By the time 2016 came around, Obama was already emboldened by the factors above and they had tested it on:

  1. The IRS/Tea Party scandal.
  2. Benghazi where four Americans were killed, and no one was ever held accountable despite the lies.
  3. The Veteran’s Administration Scandal where our soldiers died with no responsibility.
  4. Fast and Furious where Obama/Holder gave guns to Mexican gangs.
  5. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was established as separately funded from Congress and then went off and did illegal activities such as pursuing car dealer loans despite being specifically precluded from that.
  6. Bill Clinton meeting on the tarmac with Attorney General Lynch that was clearly improper over which someone should have resigned.
  7. The fact that the number two person at the FBI could not figure out that his wife taking $700,000 from a high-level Democratic operative was the definition of conflict of interest.
  8. More and More and More.

When did the press ever bring these people to task? Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress and now he is thinking of running for president. President Obama stated there was “not a smidgen of corruption” with the IRS scandal, but if you asked all the people who were never able to form their entities they might think differently.

On the way out the door, Valerie Jarrett stated about President Obama: “He prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn’t had a scandal and he hasn’t done something to embarrass himself.” When there are assertions like this that largely go undisputed by the press, you really wonder what planet everybody was on during these eight years. Yet Jake Tapper can question the current president as to his lies.

Obama kept himself, on the face of it, insulated from any of the misdeeds of his administration, but does anyone believe he did not know Holder was illegally selling those guns in Fast and Furious? Yet, Holder did not resign. Does anyone believe Obama did not know Lynch was meeting Clinton on the tarmac? Yet she did not resign.

There was virtually nothing the Obama team could say or do that got them in trouble for eight years. Obviously, they knew what was going on with the invasion of the Trump campaign. What is to question except for once again they will be let off the hook?



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 0bama; coup; deepstate; obama; spying; trump; trumpadministration
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1 posted on 05/27/2018 5:42:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Just like he weaponized the IRS. The medias refusal to hold him accountable emboldened all sorts of criminal behavior. They still fight to suppress news of his corruption.


2 posted on 05/27/2018 5:51:53 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Kaslin

Obama let off the hook or prosecuted?

Depends whether Congress really wants to step up and do their job ... or not

Obviously, the screeching from Obama’s media pals will be deafening - how many in Congress have the guts to stand up to that?


3 posted on 05/27/2018 5:52:58 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Kaslin

The only problem for Obama now is he is no longer in power and the left worships power more than anything else so there is that. 0 is perhaps slightly less bullet proof than he once was when President.


4 posted on 05/27/2018 5:58:40 AM PDT by xp38
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To: canuck_conservative
Depends whether Congress really wants to step up and do their job ... or not


Congress will NEVER do its job. The incumbents are in charge, corrupt and blackmail-able.

How long will it take the media to question Obama on this?

5 posted on 05/27/2018 5:59:41 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
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To: canuck_conservative

Is it possible to impeach a President AFTER he leaves office?

There seem to be a great number of impeachable offenses already racked up by the Obama regime. And even out of office, they cannot stop The Campaign.

Islam is totally antithetical to any other religion, and Sharia law is in diametrical opposition to the law code of any Western nation.


6 posted on 05/27/2018 6:01:21 AM PDT by alloysteel (Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama may only have known what Jarrett allowed him to know. Jus’ sayin’.


7 posted on 05/27/2018 6:04:37 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Horse heads work!)
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To: Kaslin

Obama was either oblivious or evil. You can make your case he was both.


8 posted on 05/27/2018 6:13:27 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Kaslin
The link below will take you to a podcast interview of a highly placed functionary, Averil Haines, in the Obama IC wherein she implies that O had no knowledge of the IC machinations taking place against Trump. It's purely self-serving but deals mostly w/ Russian attempts to disrupt our election and O’s standing up tp Putin (brave Obama!).

In any case it's illustrative of the obfuscation endemic to the IC

http://aca.st/0fcef0

Interesting side note: this very accomplished woman we're told is such a wonder that her and her husband bought an old Cessna airplane and she rebuilt the avionics . Then in an attempt to fly from Canada to England both engines failed and they were forced to crash land in Nova Scotia.

Hmmmmmmmmmm

9 posted on 05/27/2018 6:15:38 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

That arrogant pos is definitely without any doubt evil!!!


10 posted on 05/27/2018 6:17:27 AM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: Kaslin

btt


11 posted on 05/27/2018 6:19:08 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Pietro

He had no clue? You really don’t buy that. He knew what he was doing.


12 posted on 05/27/2018 6:19:37 AM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: Kaslin
The person(s) planted in the Trump campaign by our intelligence services was not there to get information from the person he met with in a bar in England or at a conference in England. Papadopoulos, etc. had almost zero information to give. It is so much worse than that.

They were planted there as a ruse to get a FISA warrant which would allow surveillance of every person that the dupe communicated with. That would involve many, many people in the Trump campaign or White House.

I have read that a level 2 type FISA warrant would allow surveillance of every person that the communicated with person had communication with but I cannot find verification of this. I think that it is even retroactive. It is an outrage.

13 posted on 05/27/2018 6:20:44 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: Freee-dame

I believe you supposition is right on the money. IMO there is zero chance the enigma did not know about this.


14 posted on 05/27/2018 6:35:36 AM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: Kaslin
I know it provides a stead flow of red meat to FR, but the entire Spygate coup needs to be evaluated within the context of Trump's MAGA agenda.

To reiterate, the goal of MAGA is comprised of basically three nationalistic ideals: economy, defense (border) and (rule of) law.

To the extent that prosecuting Hussein's administration for treason can help achieve those objectives, then it should continue to be front and center. There's two means to that end, the first is political, the second Lincoln.

For now, Trump is using the continual exposes to help advance the chances of a 11/2018 sweep. That's the easy way, and currently, the most effective means. However, it cannot be ignored that the Lincoln option is also present. No one should forget that a coup attempt is an act of war; that means treason.

So, let's see how the elections play out. Who cares what happens to Hussein's crew if the SC is packed with conservatives, major legislation is passed (eg terminating DoEd), FBI/CIA are revamped ceiling to floor, etc.

As long as they are more useful as boogey men, then that's how they will be leveraged. We are so long past the stage of whodunit - now, it's simply a function of how to maximize the political payoff.

I say, trust Trump. That mofo has played this thing perfectly.

15 posted on 05/27/2018 6:36:00 AM PDT by semantic
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To: canuck_conservative

There will be no prosecution of Obama or his minions.
Too many in the District of Corruption want to protect their own culpability in the Kenyanesian Usurpation.

Both parties colluded to violate the Constitution.


16 posted on 05/27/2018 6:38:44 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin
Of course I don't buy it, he simply had a cut-out in place to provide reasonable deniability. It's a fawning interview that asks no hard questions but it provides a window into the justifications used by the 0 admin for what they doing.

The key unasked question is this: if the IC knew Russian was active in trying to penetrate or influence Trump why wasn't Trump notified? Instead, they did the opposite and attempted to embroil Trump more deeply into the Russian plot.

When listening to people that work in the hall of mirrors of IC it's always more instructive to focus on what's not said and compare that to what is known.

One of the discussion points is why didn't 0 make public the Russian interference before the election and the lady says, well, we didn't want to have undo influence on the outcome of the election.

But if you recall, 0 did make public sketchy innuendo's that Trump was somehow colluding w/ the Russians as early as July 2016. So the info they had was released (via targeted leaks) to the press, always w/ an eye to damage Trump.

17 posted on 05/27/2018 6:39:57 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Kaslin
Remember the old Leftist Watergate line?
If Nixon did not know about the spying he is too naive to be president. If Nixon did know about the spying he is too crooked to be president
18 posted on 05/27/2018 7:28:01 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: Lurkinanloomin
I believe Obama to be guilty in many aspects of this Deep State weaponization of the intelligence agencies, the vindictive IRS, the queering down of the military, the use of the justice department to go after political enemies and much more.

But I am not so naive to think that anybody in authority will go after Obama now that he is out of office.

If Obama was indicted and/or tired and found guilty of sedition, every urban center in the US would burn to the ground.

Trump supporters may be "deplorable" but many Obama supporters are criminal.

Riots, looting, arson, destruction of property would abound.

On the other hand, going after Hillary is another story. She's the poster gal for government corruption. Two-time loser. Greedy, arrogant and known for her lies and dishonesty.

She could swing from the gallows and most people in the country would applaud.

19 posted on 05/27/2018 7:33:22 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Kaslin
Obama is an inveterate dirt digger and blackmailer.

His whole political career is based on illegally obtaining dirt on his political opponents any way he can

He has been spying on both Democrats and Republicans from day one

20 posted on 05/27/2018 7:35:45 AM PDT by rdcbn
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