President Trump on Sunday said recently released documents about how the FBI monitored former campaign aide Carter Page shows that his 2016 presidential campaign was…
President Trump on Sunday said recently released documents about how the FBI monitored former campaign aide Carter Page shows that his 2016 presidential campaign was “illegally being spied” on.
“Looking more & more like the Trump Campaign for President was illegally being spied upon (surveillance) for the political gain of Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC,” Trump wrote on his Twitter account. “Ask her how that worked out – she did better with Crazy Bernie. Republicans must get tough now. An illegal Scam! ”
The president was referring to the Department of Justice’s release late Saturday of a trove of heavily redacted materials about the FBI’s application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to monitor Page in 2016.
The FBI said it “believes Page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the Russian government… to undermine and influence the outcome of the 2016 U. S. presidential election in violation of U. S. criminal law.”
T he more than 400 pages of documents include the original FISA warrant sought in October 2016 and three renewals.
In another Tweet, Trump thanked Judicial Watch, the conservative group that sued for release of the documents, and said they confirm the FBI “misled the courts.”
” As usual they are ridiculously heavily redacted but confirm with little doubt that the Department of
“Justice” and FBI misled the courts. Witch Hunt Rigged, a Scam!, ” wrote Trump, who’s spending the weekend at his golf resort in New Jersey.
Page has denied any connection with the Russians.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election and whether any
Trump campaign associates colluded with Moscow.
