Obama wiretapping Trump is a scandal of Watergate dimensions a presidential administration conducting national-security surveillance against the presidential candidate of the opposition party in order to help hillary. Such activity amounts to a pretextual use of national-security power for political purposes. That is the kind of abuse that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation in lieu of impeachment.
Moreover, it cannot be glossed over that, at the very time it appears the Obama Justice Department was seeking to surveil Trump and/or his associates on the pretext that they were Russian agents, the Obama Justice Department was also actively undermining and ultimately closing without charges the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton despite significant evidence of felony misconduct that threatened national security.
This appears to be extraordinary, politically motivated abuse of presidential power.
Dummies like Matt Dowd are seeing Watergate in this story. I’m seeing Rathergate–where Dan Rather peddles made up information to try to change the election outcome to the Democrats’ favor.
Would theAmerican people believe the
Washington Post, if their writers reported that an anonymous government source, “Deep Throat,” said Obama is guilty?