Great Saturday Night live again

Best quote "Granddad shuffled out of his room again and got on Twitter!"

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In the meantime, would it not be fair for Trump to give proof of his allegations of his phones being tapped?

There's no need, is there? He'll let it just die away now because the story has served its purpose. Most likely completely fabricated, blasted out with his usual sweaty Twitter-fists and caused the usual media frenzy.

It's just so he can shoe-horn another idiotic policy in with nobody noticing.

The pattern is there but it's not a sustainable one, unless he comes up with more and more outlandish stuff. He'll have to up his game if he wants to keep hoodwinking the media while he sneaks and tweaks his orders and legislation. Maybe he's going to drop his trousers in the Oval office live on TV?

Meanwhile the leader of the free world displays symptoms of delusion like many people of his age

Am married to a guy his age- no signs whatsoever pheeew.

"It's just so he can shoe-horn another idiotic policy in with nobody noticing." Maybe so but it is hard to find examples.

My theory is he is trying to divert attention from the Russian story. The flaw in this tactic is he has chosen to make the Press into an enemy so as soon as things go quiet then they do recaps on the Russian thing

Yes, you're right. It's unlikely he would get full legislation through without any kind of scrutiny (although I'm sure he would love to be able to, which is kind of revealing that he knows what he's doing is unpopular, otherwise why try to muddy the waters and hide it?).

But I agree he's only doing it to divert attention and maybe keep his fanboi base interested. Maybe they are holding out for the trouser drop in the Oval?

Either way, I believe the Obama-wire tapping thing will most likely fade away, or maybe he'll dredge it up another time he needs to create a smokescreen.

I doubt it was Obama specifically, but if all the allegations regarding Russia have a vague semblance of truth, I would be surprised if the CIA would not have been monitoring the business and political goings on in House Trump.

He's at it again. Will someone please take his phone off him and tell him no more $3million holibobs to Florida until he learns to behave!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...51476401520640

I love the replies to the last question... "Kermit the Frog?" and "Is this multiple choice?"

Reply I liked for both content and style;
"No one talked to Russia except my Campaign Manager, National Security Advisor, Attorney General and like 11 other guys. NO ONE"

What if you both are affected?

Like the Democrats new nickname for Trump.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said: "The Deflector-in-Chief is at it again."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39172719

As forecast, a good recap in CNN today about Trump's team and Russian contacts

Source

The Guardian reports BO spokesman Ken Lewis saying Trump's allegations "simply false". "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."

Ben Rhodes, BO's former security advisor, reportedly tweeted
"No president can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you."

This doesn't rule out wiretapping though. Could have been ordered by the DoJ for instance.

What if the DoJ or some agency (NSA for instance) were surveilling the Russian ambassador and noticed the significant number of contacts by the Trump campaign and had them wiretapped? Wouldn't be unplausible, wouldn't it?

So far as I understand the situation from multiple leaks by Snowden and Wikileaks both NSA and GCHQ routinely monitored most/all telephone conversations.
Now NSA need FISC warrants in the US; I would assume they have such warrants for interesting sources like the Russian embassy.

A couple of years ago Theresa May revealed MI5 and GCHQ have been secretly scooping up the telephone and email records of the British public for almost 15 years.
They need warrants for UK but nothing stopping them copying phone calls in other countries and sharing the results with the US and other intelligence agencies.

For those disturbed by Team Trump's coziness with the Russians, how do you feel about Switzerland's relationship with Russia?

Unlike EU members, Switzerland did not impose sanctions on Russia. However, it was very kind of them to promise not to use Swiss territory to circumvent the sanctions.

Back in January, the Swiss Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann, told several newspapers that he hopes the sanctions will come to an end soon and was looking forward to discussing Russian sanctions with Trump.

Is anyone is Switzerland protesting that guy?

Quite frankly, when Trump won the nomination, I imagine half the countries in the world must have come up with plans to tap Trump Tower, even more than they would to any main presidential candidate, since this one was such an unknown to them.

I would've thought everyone listens to everyone anyway.. pretty standard since the J Edgar Hoover days.
You would think Trump would be more incensed if no one was tapping into his conversations..


I love this pic so very much, I want to frame it and hang it on my wall

Wired explains that Presidents cannot ask for wiretaps and so if Trump Tower was tapped, then a judge decided that there were good grounds to do so. Trump just might regret bringing this up.

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/feds-w...CNDID=44876673