Trump knows his time is running out or at least Mueller is closing in. Nunes apparently altered the memo today/yesterday (the timeline is murky), Hope Hicks might be going down for obstruction with trump, and (again) trump asked an FBI member if he was on his side. In this case Rosenstein, although that was some time ago. This is crazy at this point, and we're still, as of this post, about 36 hours away from the big friday news dump!!!!!!!

If this memo somehow leads to Trump firing Rosenstein and Trump's nomination fires Mueller, I will be shocked and angry. The memo has absolutely nothing to do with Mueller or his investigation. Memo has completely to do with how the FBI investigation was started in summer 2016 while Obama was still president. Mueller investigation is a completely separate investigation started after the FBI investigation was stopped through the firing of Comey. The only thing even related is that Mueller's staff has some FBI agents so some of the funding/manhours comes from FBI. That's the only connection.

Even if we overlook all that, the information portrayed in the memo is based on material that is highly classified, not being released to the public. So we don't have any idea what evidence backs up the points in the memo and how much of the memo is conjecture. The guy who wrote the memo Nunes supposedly doesn't have access to that classified material lol. Nunes also recused himself from the Russia investigation due to conflict of interests yet continues to be at the center of the investigation time and time again.

It's insane how far Republicans are willing to go to defend Trump. It should be clear by now to anyone even paying attention to this case that Trump's goal is to get Mueller fired to save his own skin. He knows he can't fire Mueller directly without major repercussions (obstruction of justice) so he is trying to get one of his goons to do it.

I no longer care about American politics

Ya man, I get you. We are kind of f*cked as a country. Way too partisan that I'm sure it's hit frustration levels at this point over the absurdity of it all.

Not on Trump. But it was on Carter Page starting in October 2016 after he left the campaign so it was after the campaign. It had leaked already so we knew, now it's in writing. But it wasn't while Page was with the campaign so I don't even see what this memo has to do with Trump or Mueller's investigation.. Baffling why Republicans made a huge fuss about this.. Politics is completely fucked in US

I'm gonna go the opposite way: Trump SHOULD have to release it but won't. He's not the kind of guy to do that. I'd be really shocked if he signed off on it. If he does it hurts his "credibility" with his fake news, liberal media, democrats shadow government shit.

Why the fuck would he release it? lol. He has nothing to gain. People who love him will still love him, and people who hate him will just have more ammo.

Another week, another Trump administration scandal. This time with Rob Porter, a White house aide for being a wifebeater. Hope Hicks right in the middle of it as we found out she was banging Porter. Trump pissed at Porter for the allegations, Hicks for defending Porter & drafting a statement defending Porter without Trump's permission, and General Kelly for hiring Porter lol.

As a person who has a crush on her career basically, I have a hard time believing the rumors she was sleeping with Porter. She's an incredibly brilliant person, I can't imagine her fucking up her career that way. Trump affair? i'd buy that because it's a power move. The semi-substantiated rumors she's involved with the obstruction of justice? I can somewhat buy that.

Her being a homewrecker? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh.

One of Trump's speechwriters has resigned too because he's an abuser. Weird scandal so far for Trump because it's a pretty normal-ish thing in comparison to everything else he's involved in. And so far he hasn't given a major gaffe on it. Although he came within inches of giving a "there's fine people on both sides" for abusers today. Give it a couple more days I guess.

Okay Fox News

www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/02/03/does-the-gop-memo-show-the-fbi-spied-on-the-trump-campaign/?utm_term=.a0da270f1297

And the only reason they spied on his campaign itself was because Papadapa was bragging to people about working with the Russians lol. 

they literally only spied on Carter Page and Papadapa because he bragged about it. Sure they then used the steele dossier (most of which has been verified at this point) so it really doesn't matter. 

There's a reason why people are pleading guilty to Mueller, and working with him.

Which is different from you ignoring obvious facts how?

The steele dossier has been mostly independently verified. 

AGAIN they did NOT use the steele dossier to wiretap people who worked for trump. They originally wiretapped Manafort all the way back in 2014, and then again at some point in 2016 which we don't know entirely when (we'll come back to this) Immediately after Hillary lost she and the DNC pulled funding from Steele and the rest of the dossier was funded by some rich dude and Fusion GPS. Steele kept keeping tabs on Trump associates whereabouts and misdoings for a time after that (I forgot when but its in the dossier) but sometime in 2017.

Hillary and the DNC paid



The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day. link



link So that leaves one month where Hillary/DNC probably had no reason to fund it for whatever reason. Even though opposition research is totally cool and I don't get why you're squeamish about it. Although if dude is willing to tell random US allies that in a London bar I'm sure he was talking beforehand but I can't prove that, so I'll give you the april funding argument.

But....there's also the fact that Manafort went to Russia 19 times after 2014 despite having absolutely no reason to once the Ukranian president was ousted (which was his buddy he supposedly worked for/with) link Including multiple times around when and just before he became the campaign chairman. 

But the FBI had a ton of reason to investigate/wiretap given that the FBI and others had independently verified parts of the dossier at the time, and it came from a US ally.  What we do know is that Papadapa had already met with "the professor" and was bragging about the info Russia had. Then there's JR's emails to the Kremlin about hacking the DNC and of course that is followed up a month later by Trump telling Russia to hack on national TV. Given that, and what we know Obama knew about the election and Russian interference, the FBI probably had some good reason to wiretap regardless.

Given all that, I don't see how you can get upset about Manafort being wiretapped. If it's someone else tell me who and I'll gladly give you more articles on why they probably did.