Trump Was Right and I Knew It! Obama and Comey Wiretapped Trump Via Manafort

RUSH: This is absolutely incredible, what we have learned today. Not only what we learned about Trump actually being wiretapped, he was wiretapped, and I knew it.

When the media pooh-poohed it, when everybody called him insane, when everybody told him he didn’t know what he was talking about, when it was dangerous, when everybody was saying this is typical of having an outsider that doesn’t know what he’s doing, it turns out that the Obama administration and James Comey’s FBI wiretapped the head of Trump’s campaign, Paul Manafort, including conversations Manafort had with Trump.

We also know the New York Times has a story today that there was a raid on Manafort’s home not long ago, predawn. The FBI picked the lock at Manafort’s home while he was at home in bed and stormed in the front door and demanded computer files and computers and documents and walked out of there. This is the result of the Mueller investigation. And there are threats now they’re trying to get Mueller to flip and other people by threatening to indict him. And we now know there was a wiretap that James Comey pooh-poohed and laughed at during congressional testimony.

You remember. When Trump said his wires were being tapped at Trump Tower and they didn’t find anything, and the establishment smirked, and the establishment snickered, and they all started laughing and said, “Trump, this is typical. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s insane. He’s shooting from the hip.” It turns out that all of that was correct.

This is much worse than Watergate, folks. That was a third-rate burglary that went awry. Trump was called a liar. He was mocked for tweeting about Trump Tower being wiretapped. David Gergen, you’ll hear on the sound bites today, practically chokes when confronted with the news that Trump was right and doesn’t quite know what to say about it. But, I tell you what, folks, in many ways it’s worse than Watergate, and it’s still going on even with Trump in the White House.

Richard Nixon was accused of spying on the DNC, but Nixon never ordered any such spying. In fact, he didn’t know anything about it. He was accused of using the IRS against his political opponents, but he never did. We know for a fact that Obama did both of these things, used the IRS against political opponents and probably more. There’s no outrage in the media on this. They think it’s great that Manafort’s lock was picked.

The New York Times reports this as though it’s something that happens every day. Yep, the FBI showed up, they picked the lock of Manafort’s front door in Virginia and walked in and woke him up along with his family and then started demanding things and taking things.

Everybody’s talking about the wiretapping of Paul Manafort and how that most likely included a wiretap of Trump, meaning Trump would have been talking to Manafort. And those conversations, since Manafort was tapped, they were recorded. Trump claimed that he was being wiretapped, Trump Tower, where, by the way, Manafort has an apartment. Did you know that, Mr. Snerdley, Manafort lived in Trump Tower?

So Trump says they’re tapping my wires at Trump Tower. Nobody thought to look. Does Manafort or anybody on the campaign live there? Turns out Manafort has a place there, primary residence in Virginia. That is where the FBI picked the lock in the predawn hours sometime in August and walked in and woke up the Manafort family. Picked the lock. Didn’t knock on the door. They picked the lock and went in. And we’ll get to the details of all that, including media reaction, which is juicy and delectable.

The Obama administration surveilled more Americans than any previous administration in this country. All under the guise of surveilling foreign combatants and potential terrorists. That’s how they got Mike Flynn. With Manafort, ladies and gentlemen, what actually happened was that the FBI showed up before dawn at his home in Virginia and picked the lock and walked in, woke the family up, and began taking computers, making copies of files, lifting entire pieces of equipment, taking it outside the house. All in an attempt to intimidate Manafort, to get him to flip, maybe, on Trump and Russian collusion.

The New York Times is cheering this. Listen to the headline: “With a Picked Lock and a Threatened Indictment, Mueller’s Inquiry Sets a Tone — Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home,” as though this happens routinely.

Special counsel even took the unusual step of obtaining a subpoena for one of Manafort’s former lawyers, claiming an exception to attorney-client privilege. And so now the stories are all in. “Exclusive: U.S. Government Wiretapped Former Trump Campaign.” This is CNN. Too many sources cautioned the evidence is not conclusive, meaning the evidence that they might have procured after storming Manafort’s house.

What it all means is that we know that the Obama FBI wiretapped the head of a political campaign. So the media was right; they were claiming that what Trump was doing in colluding with Russia was bigger than Watergate. It turns out this is bigger than Watergate. What the government’s doing is bigger than Watergate. Nixon never did any of this. He may have dreamed about it, and he may have gotten drunk and talked to people, but he never did this. Nixon never actually used the IRS to penalize enemies, but Obama did. Ever heard of Lois Lerner?

I don’t know if we know for a fact in the history of this country has a sitting president gone so far as to use the FBI to defeat a political opponent? Do we know that? I mean, it may have happened, but I don’t know that we know about it.

And then from Breitbart: “James Comey Tried to Discredit Trump’s Wiretapping Assertions That Now Have Proved True.” You know, Comey was lying about this under oath during one of his days of testimony on Capitol Hill. “Director Comey, are you familiar with the allegation that the FBI may have wiretapped Trump Tower?” And Comey (imitating Comey), “Ha! Yeah, I’ve heard a lot of things in my day, Senator, but I can unequivocally say that I’m unaware, totally unaware if any orders to wiretap Trump Tower.”

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