President Trump said on Wednesday that he thought that the former national security adviser Susan E. Rice may have committed a crime by seeking the identities of Trump associates who were swept up in the surveillance of foreign officials by American spy agencies and that other Obama administration officials may also have been involved.
The president provided no evidence to back his claim. Current and former intelligence officials from both Republican and Democratic administrations have said that nothing they have seen led them to believe that Ms. Rice’s actions were unusual or unlawful. When Americans are swept up in surveillance of foreign officials by intelligence agencies, their identities are supposed to be obscured, but they can be revealed for national security reasons, and intelligence officials say it is a regular occurrence.
But when asked for evidence from intelligence sources, Trump didn't provide any:
He declined to say if he had personally reviewed new intelligence to bolster his claim but pledged to explain himself “at the right time.”
Of course he declined to say if he had personally reviewed new intelligence. Because there isn't any. Trump is pushing this lie after he read it in some conspiracy theory right-wing source that didn't present any evidence either other than some claim by a source who did not provide any proof either.
Let me guess: Trump is going to say in a few weeks he was just quoting from the fake news source.
We've seen this movie before. It's called LYING DONALD TRUMP.
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