Damning FBI memo used to launch surveillance of Trump unveiled: ‘Scam based on absurd gossip’
May 21, 2020 | Samantha Chang
Political watchdog Judicial Watch unveiled the damning “electronic communication†(EC) that officially launched “Crossfire Hurricane,†the counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
That surveillance operation — and the wide-ranging cluster of crimes perpetrated by the Obama FBI and DOJ to destroy the Trump presidency — is now known as Obamagate.
The EC was obtained as a result of Judicial Watch’s FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) lawsuit against the FBI and Department of Justice.
The electronic communication was dated July 31, 2016 and was written by former FBI official Peter Strzok — a Hillary superfan who hates Trump, as he expressed in countless text messages with his former mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page.
The redacted document appears to prove that the illegal surveillance of Trump campaign aides was started on the basis of unsubstantiated, third-hand gossip speculating that Russia might have wanted Donald Trump to win in 2016.
Strzok’s email claimed that the Russian government “had been seeking prominent members of the Donald Trump campaign in which to engage to prepare for potential post-election relations should Trump be elected U.S. President.â€
Instead of entrapping a “prominent member†of the Trump campaign, the Obama FBI targeted George Papadopoulos, a low-level functionary, to use as the “hook†to illegally spy on the Trump campaign.
It is illegal for the government to spy on American citizens without substantive justification. That bar was not met in this instance.
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