Now we are learning about another type of spying - the Clinton campaign spying on the Trump campaign. So, there is ample evidence to say that the FBI spied on the Trump campaign. Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. Then we learned that in 2016, the FBI sent an undercover agent - a woman who used the alias Azra Turk - to secretly record conversations with Papadopoulos. Then we learned that also in 2016, the FBI used a confidential informant, a professor named Stefan Halper, to spy on Page and George Papadopoulos, another low-level Trump adviser. We learned that in the final days of the 2016 presidential race, when the Clinton campaign came up with the Steele dossier, a collection of sensational and unsupported allegations about Trump and Russia, the FBI used the dossier to win approval to wiretap Carter Page, a low-level former Trump campaign adviser. But over the years, a series of facts emerged that, while they did not support some of Trump's most specific charges - Obama did not wiretap Trump in Trump Tower - did support the larger idea that Trump was indeed the target of spying. This is McCarthyism!' Two years later, in April 2019, he was less specific but equally adamant when he said, 'There was absolutely spying into my campaign.' In August 2020, during his Republican National Committee acceptance speech, he said, 'Remember this: They spied on my campaign.'Įach time, all the usual anti-Trump voices rushed to accuse the president of lying.

For example, in March 2017, Trump, just two months in office, tweeted, 'Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. He made the charge in several different ways. One of the most contentious claims Donald Trump ever made was his insistence that he had been the target of spying. Sign up here to receive Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter.

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