Last thing I will say on this for all of you who have no questions. You have a DOJ, FBI, and CIA that are under a Trump administration. You all are openly accepting that the way this "investigation" has been handled is on the up and up and therefore will have no leg to stand on and complain when Trump does the same thing to his next competitor.
He can open a FISA investigation based on opposition research, send foreign operatives to plant rumors and then entrap 20 year old political foot soldiers to brag about what they knew to reinforce the investigation and then he can rectal exam every single donor and idiosyncrasy in taxes, funds, etc. for anyone attached to the Democratic candidates campaign.
Those are the new rules.
Where exactly was the entrapment? That’s a fallacy. And brings down your whole argument. Go look up the definition of entrapment. And stop parroting Trump symapthizer’s words. Please.
A confidential source contacted folks already on the radar for havibg very suspicious links to Russians. What exactly did he do to entrap a team Trump member? That’s standard protocol in these situations- and was literally the least obtrusive thing that could be done. Do you really think that if Paige and GP knew they were being checked out, that it would’ve stayed silent???
Trump would’ve had a damn field day with his grievances. This was done quietly, per existing protocol, so as NOT TO INFLUENCE THE DAMN ELECTION. I don’t understand what was so wrong about that.
So, when two Trump campaign operatives trip the wire of our intelligence services, during a PRESIDENTIAL campaign, what do you propose we do? Remember, both the UK and Australia came to us with concerns- and Paige had been a suspected Russian conspirator/spy since at least 2013.
Should we just sit idly by and not at least take the pulse on it? That’s literally all that was done here. Again, NOT entrapment.
It’s almost as if it’s OK for you guys if campaign operatives openly work with foreign powers to influence an election. This isn’t watergate- this was a RESPONSE to really suspicious behavior by Paige and GP. And Clovis was well know as a Russian sympathizer as well. If I took issue with anything, it may be have been that the CI contacted him. Then again, the approval process was pretty rigid, and these guys knew this could be scrutinized later.
In other words, bad behavior necessitated checking into what was happening. There’s not much more important than the sovereignty of our elections.
If Hillary’s folks had openly boasted of working with Russian sources during the campaign, and nothing was done, you’d be losing it over that happening.
So, what would you have proposed we did instead? Nothing? That seems like what you’re advocating here.
Enlighten me.
