Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Sunday that President Donald Trump is “in trouble” whether his claims that President Barack Obama’s administration obtained a wiretap on Trump Tower are true or not.
“If he falsely spread this kind of misinformation, that is so wrong,” Schumer told Chuck Todd on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
He said that doing so is “beneath the dignity of the presidency” and “really hurts people’s view of government.”
“On the other hand, if it’s true, it’s even worse for the President,” he said. “Because that means that a federal judge, independently elected, has found probable cause that the President, or people on his staff, had probable cause to have broken the law or to have interacted with a foreign agent.”
“So either way, the President makes it worse with these tweets,” Schumer said. “And either way, Chuck, the President’s in trouble.”
On Saturday, Trump claimed President Barack Obama was “wire tapping” his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election. He offered no evidence to support those claims.
A spokesperson for Obama rejected Trump’s allegations later the same day.
“Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen,” Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Sunday that to his knowledge there was no FISA court order to implement surveillance on Trump Tower.
The White House nevertheless called the same day for Congress to investigate Trump’s allegations as part of its probe into election interference by Russia.
What did the Orange Shitgibbon know and when did he know it?
Figured it out. There was no order to wiretap U.S. citizens or Trump Tower. The wiretap was on Ukrainian citizens, who happened to be talking to Trump Tower residents…
That would make Clapper’s statements entirely true, and yes, Trump’s in trouble.
One thing the FBI does really, really well is financial crime.
Investigating, documenting, prosecuting, and convicting.
(Did I mention turning rats against each other through plea bargains?)
In all likelihood, any warrant to surveil Trumpworld leads directly to money laundering.
Buckets and buckets and buckets of Russian-mob money.
Flowing through Donald’s stubby, little fingers.
Tangling with the Feds is a tad more difficult than smacking down a GOP clown car full of primary dopes.
As he’s about to discover…
Great logical trap, Chuck! Good job. If Drumpf had any idea just how stupid he really is, he’d resign out of embarrassment and national pride. Alas, this Orange Turd that we find in our nation’s punch bowl is totally unaware of his deep mental pathology and he will burn the house down while he’s inside. Go get him, Chuck.
"He said that doing so is "beneath the dignity of the presidency"
Can we all agree that the trump train wreck is totally beneath the dignity of everything? How the heck will we ever crawl back to a place where the presidency is ever dignified again?
Worse… are the complete hypocrites that think it’s just dandy for the Magic R to absolve trump and his clowns of everything they accused Obama of… and more? Trips to Mar A Largo cost a bundle… don’t cha know.