Trump Advisor: No, I Don’t Believe Our Campaign Headquarters Are Bugged

UNITED STATES - March 5 - A campaign worker carries out campaign signs to be given out at the opening of the Donald Trump for President Raleigh campaign headquarters, in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, March 5, 2016. (Phot... UNITED STATES - March 5 - A campaign worker carries out campaign signs to be given out at the opening of the Donald Trump for President Raleigh campaign headquarters, in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, March 5, 2016. (Photo By Al Drago/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Paul Manafort, advisor to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, said Suday that he didn’t believe the real estate mogul’s campaign headquarters were bugged.

The New York Times reported in a story published Friday, citing three unnamed people “briefed on the conversations” that campaign staffers were beginning to feel paranoid and felt as if the headquarters might be bugged.

Manafort was asked about it on ABC News’ “This Week.”

“I don’t know who said that,” Manafort said. “Certainly there are people probably would like to, because there’s a lot of good work going on there and we’ve been able to develop a campaign that is cohesive, that’s working together, and in a record time thanks to a great candidate who has got a vision and connected to the American people, put the campaign in a position to win the presidency.”

Manafort then explicitly said that he didn’t believe it and reitereated that he didn’t know who said it.

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  1. Really? Spamming for a website, Facebook page, and Twitter feed on a forum that isn’t associated with that website? Once upon a time, that was considered very bad etiquette. Admittedly, I don’t know if it is anymore or not.

  2. More and more if you do links or quotes from another site those things will automatically get pasted at the bottom of your post. I’ve had to clean up a number of them.

  3. Why would their campaign headquarters be bugged? It’s not as if they ever say anything worth listening to.

  4. ‘paranoia strikes deep’ Steve Stills… this song has stayed true in all the years…

    There’s something happening here
    What it is ain’t exactly clear
    There’s a man with a gun over there
    Telling me I got to beware
    I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
    Everybody look what’s going down
    There’s battle lines being drawn
    Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
    Young people speaking their minds
    Getting so much resistance from behind
    I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
    Everybody look what’s going down
    What a field-day for the heat
    A thousand people in the street
    Singing songs and carrying signs
    Mostly say, hooray for our side
    It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
    Everybody look what’s going down
    Paranoia strikes deep
    Into your life it will creep
    It starts when you’re always afraid
    You step out of line, the man come and take you away
    We better stop, hey, what’s that sound
    Everybody look what’s going down
    Stop, hey, what’s that sound
    Everybody look what’s going down
    Stop, now, what’s that sound
    Everybody look what’s going down
    Stop, children, what’s that sound
    Everybody look what’s going down

  5. Well, isn’t this a shocking development. A pack of out-for-themselves ass-covering backstabbers are stabbing each other in the back in an effort to look out for themselves and then claiming the office is bugged to cover their asses. Simply could not have been foreseen.

    ETA: This is remarkable, actually. Ten lies, I think, in two sentences.

    “I don’t know who said that,” Manafort said. “Certainly there are people probably would like to, because there’s a lot of good work going on there and we’ve been able to develop a campaign that is cohesive, that’s working together, and in a record time thanks to a great candidate who has got a vision and connected to the American people, put the campaign in a position to win the presidency.”

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