President Donald Trump predictably got behind Attorney General William Barr’s characterization of intelligence agencies’ activities as “spying” during the Trump campaign, saying Thursday that it’s “absolutely true.”
“I think what he said was absolutely true that there was absolutely spying into my campaign — I’ll go a step further, in my opinion it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying, something that should never be allowed to happen in our country again,” Trump said. “I think his answer was a very accurate one and a lot of people understand the situation.”
Trump predictably clings to Barr’s “spying” characterization, saying that it’s “absolutely true” pic.twitter.com/cisNqjNWsN
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) April 11, 2019
Trump has long been on the “spygate” train, taking any “evidence” — even a slip of the tongue — to be proof that government officials were trying to undermine his candidacy. Security officials have held that the intelligence activities were trying to detect Russian meddling in the election, not to target the Trump campaign.
Looks like it’s been a two milkbone day for the Trump Barrsett Hound.
In the same presser he also said that he’s not concerned about the “Mueller report” (Barr “Sharpie” version of course) coming out because it fully exonerates him on collusion, obstruction, etc.
Yet he continues to accuse Mueller & his investigators as “angry Dems” who are out to avenge and reverse the 2016 election in what amounts to a “treasonous coup attempt”.
So, the people who despise and were out to get you fully exonerated you. How exactly does that work?
Do you remember when Bush administration was most hated administration in living memory?
If we only knew…
Trump is the last dude I’d want on my team. Barr has a hard enough job as it is walking the fine line between obstruction and coverup and doesn’t need Mr Subtlety jumping on his shoulders and yelling for him to giddy up and catch the posse that’s still chasing him.
Barr likely only mentioned spying to make Trump happy and now he’s learning that when you give Trump an inch he’ll brag it’s a mile and demand that you make it so. I’m sure he’s breaking out the scotch as we speak and wondering how he got into this mess.
Both Barr and Trump believe that they have plenty of evidence that “spying” occurred – Donnie’s own previous tweets.