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