Random Politics & Religion #20

The White House on Wednesday said that President Trump was not the target of any investigation, even though five days earlier he claimed in a series of tweets that he had indeed been the target of a wiretap initiated by former President Barack Obama.

“There is no reason that we should — that we have to think that the President is the target of any investigation whatsoever,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during his daily briefing with reporters.

Spicer’s comments came several minutes after he had first implied that the White House was unsure whether the president was a target or not.

Responding to a reporter’s question asking if the president was the “target of a counter-intelligence investigation,” Spicer initially said, “I think that’s what we need to find out. There’s obviously a lot of concern.”

But apparently, that wasn’t the final answer.

At the end of the briefing, Spicer was handed a sheet of paper by an aide, from which he read the aforementioned assertion that the White House had no reason to believe the current commander in chief was a target of an investigation.

In the aftermath of Trump’s initial comments regarding wiretapping, the White House suggested that Congress should look into the matter.

Last Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Sheldon White House (D-Rhode Island) sent a letter to the Justice Department asking for any information regarding Trump’s wiretapping claims.

“We request that the Department of Justice provide us copies of any warrant applications and court orders — redacted as necessary to protect intelligence sources and methods that may be compromised by disclosure, and to protect any ongoing investigations — related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump Campaign, or Trump Tower,” the letter read.

“All I can say is that the country needs an answer to this,” Graham told CNN last Thursday. “The current President has accused the former President of basically wiretapping his campaign.”

So with that, one last thing, just to clarify. I think Jill asked this, but I just want to be really clear on one point, which is, there is no reason that we should -- that we have to think that the President is the target of any investigation whatsoever. I’m sorry, that was Margaret. I apologize.

Q Specifically counterintelligence.

MR. SPICER: Right, and there is no reason to believe that he is the target of any investigation. I think that’s a very important point to make, and so --

Q So retract your previous --

MR. SPICER: No, no, no. It doesn’t -- what I’m saying is -- hold on. The one question dealt with whether or not the tweet dealt with wiretaps during the thing, the other is an investigation. They are two separate issues, and there is no reason to believe that there is any type of investigation with respect to the Department of Justice.

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I'm going to assume that the other half are birthed by the lizard people.

I'm going to assume that the other half are birthed by the lizard people.

The NYT just changed their archived Jan 20 news headline which included "wiretapped" to "surveiled".

Isn't it common practice to update news article? It's standard here.

You would figure that national media would be jumping all over this.

However:

Nothing on MSN (Only story about Spicer is House Chair telling him to STFU on Obamacare).
Nothing on CNN (Story about Pence dodging question about the wiretap, but not anything close to what you show)
Nothing on Fox News.
Nothing on Reuters.
Nothing on RCP (which has sources from everyone).

I'm calling this a *** story.

Secondly, this thing about the baker/florist pop here and there but about half of the states have laws against discrimination when providing services, that's just the law being applied. They are free to complain about it and others are free to complain about them complaining.

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There are also laws protecting the right to refuse business. Guess what? Both of those laws are in conflict with each other.