Their reasoning was because Manafort worked for the Party of Regions. BUT guess who else worked for the Party of Regions? The Podesta Group.
Obviously they were only targeting the Trump campaign.
The original FISA warrant was issued in 2014, long before Manaforte became Trump's campaign chairman. So Obama did not tape the Trump campaign. After Manaforte became Trump's campaign chair, the warrant was allowed to expire. The FBI reapplied for a NEW FISA warrant after he was fired because he was under criminal investigation.
Apparently you idiots didn't bother to read the article.
What are you talking about. The CNN article is very vague on the time lines. And the Obama administration hacks definitely targeted the Trump campaign.
"By then the FBI had noticed what counterintelligence agents thought was a series of odd connections between Trump associates and Russia."
Meanwhile the Podesta Group was on Capitol Hill lobbying for sanctions to be lifted on the Russian government bank. Sberbank. It's the Kremlin's bank. But it was the Trump team that needed to be investigated for their so called Russian connections.
Oh no freaking bias there. It's a witch hunt plain and simple.
"The media’s focus on Trump’s Russian connections ignores the much more extensive and lucrative business relationships of top Democrats with Kremlin-associated oligarchs and companies.
Thanks to the Panama Papers, we know that the Podesta Group (founded by John Podesta’s brother, Tony)
lobbied for Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank.
“Sberbank is the Kremlin, they don’t do anything major without Putin’s go-ahead, and they don’t tell him ‘no’ either,”
explained a retired senior U.S. intelligence official.
According to a Reuters
report, Tony Podesta was “among the high-profile lobbyists registered to represent organizations backing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich.” Among these was the European Center, which paid Podesta $900,000 for his lobbying.
That’s not all: The busy Podesta Group also
represented Uranium One, a uranium company acquired by the Russian government which received approval from Hillary Clinton’s State Department to mine for uranium in the U.S. and gave Russia twenty percent control of US uranium.
The New York Times reported Uranium One’s chairman, Frank Guistra, made significant donations to the Clinton Foundation, and Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for one speech from a Russian investment bank that has “links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.”
Notably, Frank Giustra, the Clinton Foundation’s largest and most controversial donor, does not
appear anywhere in Clinton’s “non-private” emails. It is possible that the emails of such key donors were automatically scrubbed to protect the Clinton Foundation.
Let’s not leave out fugitive Ukrainian oligarch, Dymtro Firtash. He is
represented by Democratic heavyweight lawyer, Lanny Davis"
No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists