Moreover, if there wasn't a wiretap, his tweets libel a former POTUS, which is a felony.
IANAL but if Pres.
Obama were to sue him in criminal court and win, that would make the current occupant of the White House a convicted criminal. Which is an impeachable offence, IIRC. Assuming the Republicans, who currently are in the majority in the Senate, were ever to decide to put country over party and not stick with this chap simply because "we won." Each and every single one of those people took an oath to defend the country from all enemies foreign and domestic, and thus far they're not doing a good job of it.
And if there was a wiretap, it means a national security agency presented convincing evidence of Trump/Russia collusion to a federal judge in FISA court.
Yes. POTUS doesn't order wiretaps as if this was an episode of
The Sopranos or something; such a thing has to come via a FISA court order. Which means that he is stymied yet again by those inconvenient judge people. Ironic.
Also of note:
Former George W. Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that any surveillance of Trump Tower was “conducted at the behest of the attorney general — at the Justice Department,” rather than on the orders of former President Barack Obama...Mukasey said if there were a wiretap on Trump Tower, it would mean that there was suspicion someone had been acting as Russian agent.
"It means there was some basis to believe that somebody in Trump Tower may have been acting as an agent of the Russians for whatever purpose,” he said. “Not necessarily the election, but for some purpose.”
Another thing to note is that he always takes to Twitter to try and distract people from other, more important stuff. He does it all the time, and when he does so he's usually lying or spreading Breitbartian conspiracy crap. For example:
- The IRS might be auditing his tax returns “because of the fact that I'm a strong Christian.”
- He suggested that Ted Cruz’s father was somehow involved with Lee Harvey Oswald.
- He said there’s something "very fishy" about Vince Foster's death.
- He trafficked in rumors that Antonin Scalia may have been a victim of foul play. In a radio interview he said: “They say they found a pillow on his face, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow.”
- He said vaccines may cause chi1dhood autism.
- He maintained that he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the Sept. 11 attacks.
- He insisted that a man who charged the security barricades at one of his rallies in Ohio was a member of the Daesh. He based this false statement on a hoax Internet video he and his staff saw online.
and on and on and on.
Nero, according to legend, fiddled while Rome burned. Meanwhile, the current occupant of the White House has spent more time and more of our money playing golf in one month, than Pres.
Obama did in EIGHT YEARS. Over the last five weekends, he has visited his luxury resort four times –
each trip costs American taxpayers about $3 million – and as of last night, he had spent 31% of his presidency at Mar-a-Lago.
He’s now played golf eight times since taking office six weeks ago. Obama on the other hand didn't play his first round of golf as C-in-C until he had been in the White House for four months.
None of this would have mattered all that much if not only had the fellow been
continually bitching about Pres. Obama's time on vacation on Twitter, but also because he lied on the campaign trail by saying he "wouldn't have time for golf" since he'd "want to stay in the White House and work my ass off."
In what world is this considered "winning" or "making America great again"? This is not normal.