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You seem to have so many different things mixed up here that I don’t even know where to begin. Being popular has nothing to do with it, being a politician has

• roenxi 2y ago
  > There were a whole range of specific actions that occurred that resulted in an investigation as it should. One of the FBI lawyers involved plead guilty to a felony false statement charge. They were literally making up pretexts to spy on the Trump campaign. I think the issue here is when you talk about "legitimate" you mean that you are happy enough to see the FISA system used as an internal political club. There is no way that it is being used legitimately, we're in the opening stages of a process where every single incoming US president is going to have their communications examined by the incumbent's administration. Or at least when the party in power changes. There isn't anything special about Trump here. He turned out not to be doing anything suspicious, or they'd be going after him for it (or have gone after people in his campaign). Ergo, any clean candidate is probably suspicious enough to warrant surveillance.
  • mdhb 2y ago
    This is just total delusional reality stuff.