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Lizza: The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes’s Fake Scandal

April 22, 2017 by Michael Boyle

Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker on the scrambling reaction to unprovoked and made-up Tweets from President Trump about how he had supposedly been surveilled the the previous administration. Strong stuff.

The intelligence source told me that he knows, “from talking to people in the intelligence community,” that “the White House said, ‘We are going to mobilize to find something to justify the President’s tweet that he was being surveilled.’ They put out an all-points bulletin”—a call to sift through intelligence reports—“and said, ‘We need to find something that justifies the President’s crazy tweet about surveillance at Trump Tower.’ And I’m telling you there is no way you get that from those transcripts, which are about as plain vanilla as can be.” (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)

Source: The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes’s Fake Scandal – The New Yorker

Tags: New Yorker, Ryan Lizza, Trump, US Politics

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