President Donald Trump once again floated the idea that a confidential FBI informant was planted in the Trump campaign to gleam information, in a Friday tweet.
Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a “hot” Fake News story. If true – all time biggest political scandal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2018
Trump has repeatedly tweeted about the accusation in the past two days, previously quoting analysis from Fox News contributors and National Review’s Andrew McCarthy.
“Apparently the DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign. This has never been done before and by any means necessary, they are out to frame Donald Trump for crimes he didn’t commit.” David Asman @LouDobbs @GreggJarrett Really bad stuff!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2018
Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says, “There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.” If so, this is bigger than Watergate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 17, 2018
Trump and the analysts reacted to recent revelations from The New York Times, which noted that “at least one government informant met several times with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos,” who were both advisory members of the 2016 campaign.
Conservative lawmakers have now launched an effort to force the Department of Justice to reveal who its confidential source inside the Trump campaign was.
“There is probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign,” former prosecutor and columnist Andrew McCarthy said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning prompting a presidential tweet. “What happened here is they did not have a criminal predicate to open an investigation on Trump as they had an immense predicate to conduct on President Clinton.”