- Trump’s dig at the surveillance state
- Is it really so “baffling”?
- But what do we know
Not surprising, of course, but interesting nonetheless, the Daily Beast and the Washington Post , along with various other leftie “news” outlets are continuing to try to keep the “Russian Collusion Story” alive.
What makes it interesting is that these “masters of communications” are so narrowly focused on their ‘divine mission’ to drive Donald Trump from office, that they are oblivious to their own incoherence.
A “Daily Beast” story on Friday best illustrates this point. Entitled, cleverly:
Trump Aides Respond to His Latest Conspiracy Tweets: ‘FML.’
As in, ‘f*ck my life.’
Heres’ the “beef” of the story:
On Thursday, the “Beast” reported that Trump had “ended the speculation” as to whether or not he had secretly taped conversations between James Comey and himself.
The BIG NEWS, though, was that in doing so, the story’s authors concluded that he created new speculations which the “Beast” found “baffling” to the president’s “aides” that he would do so.
The new “latest conspiracy tweets” Trump raised is just so absurd these brilliant journalists are well beyond mere bafflement!
The president added to his comment about having made no recording of his conversations, that he couldn’t say that there were no recordings, given the revealed facts of “reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking, and illegal leaking of information”. The Beast suggested that Mr. Trump was saying he could not guarantee that there is not someone, somewhere who might have illegally made such tapes (like maybe some Obama Deep, Deep Staters?)!
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Our own opinion of Trump’s comments is that, rather than “baffling” that he didn’t simply say “I don’t have any tapes and did not make any recordings of my conversations with Comey”, it was a smart and very plausible observation, to open up the question that ‘maybe someone did who should not have’ and that perhaps that is an avenue of inquiry that Mr. Mueller and his band of Democratic, Hillary-supporting, crack investigators might more usefully pursue.
Don’t know about you, but makes perfect sense to me!
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Excerpts from the Daily Beast story:
“Trump ended speculation on Thursday about whether he had installed a recording device in the Oval Office and made “tapes” of his conversations with former FBI director James Comey, a possibility he first raised in another tweet in early May. “I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” he wrote.
“But then, unprompted, he floated another possibility: U.S. intelligence or law enforcement officials might have his office bugged. “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey,” Trump wrote.
“It was a bizarre suggestion that took some in the White House off guard. “No clue what the thinking was,” a White House staffer said of the tweets. “He could’ve just said there are no tapes. It’s baffling, frankly.”
“After a cascading series of controversies created in large part by Donald Trump’s Twitter account, the president took to his preferred medium again on Thursday to float another conspiracy theory: the Oval Office itself could be under surveillance.
“Trump ended speculation on Thursday about whether he had installed a recording device in the Oval Office and made “tapes” of his conversations with former FBI director James Comey, a possibility he first raised in another tweet in early May. “I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” he wrote.
“But then, unprompted, he floated another possibility: U.S. intelligence or law enforcement officials might have his office bugged. “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey,” Trump wrote.
“It was a bizarre suggestion that took some in the White House off guard. “No clue what the thinking was,” a White House staffer said of the tweets. “He could’ve just said there are no tapes. It’s baffling, frankly.”
“Instead of putting the “tape” issue to rest and leave it at that, Trump’s statements threaten to embroil the White House in yet another round of politically inconvenient questioning about issues—Comey’s firing, the FBI’s probe into Russian election-meddling, and Trump’s reported efforts to hobble it—that the White House has tried, with little success, to move past.”
DLH
