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BRAD REED
11 JAN 2018 AT 09:24 ET
President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked his own administrations position on foreign surveillance legislation because of a segment he watched on Fox & Friends and then quickly walked it back just an hour later.
I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and todays vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land, Trump wrote in response to an earlier tweet he sent out Thursday morning. We need it! Get smart!
Earlier in the morning, Trump undermined the White Houses position on renewing Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act after a Fox & Friends segment suggested that this act was used to conduct warrantless spying on Trumps campaign.
House votes on controversial FISA ACT today,' the president wrote, quoting directly from the Fox segment. This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?
As CNNs Kaitlan Collins pointed out, the White House on Wednesday night issued a statement urging Congress to preserve the useful role FISAs Section 702 authority plays in protecting American lives which means Fox & Friends effectively tricked Trump into contradicting his own administration.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/get-smart-trump-walks-back-attack-on-his-own-white-house-after-getting-tricked-by-fox-friends/
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Will someone unplug his tv cable, please?
tanyev
(42,559 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)Danascot
(4,690 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)*evil grin*
Maeve
(42,282 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,328 posts)Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)he manages to reach a new low. I swear, when we get control back we really need to see about requiring some sort of minimum requirement. He's commander in chief so meeting the requirements that a military officer has to meet seems like a good start.
dalton99a
(81,512 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)and we're all in the crossfire.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)"foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land"?
Any Grammatical Math geniuses willing to parse that one?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Zambero
(8,964 posts)...domestic surveillance of our own terrific guys on our own great land? Hopefully, Fox & Friends can provide some further clarification!
mtngirl47
(989 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)WOOF! Here little Foxxx doggy!
wishstar
(5,269 posts)In our household we are tired of the emotional and mental strain of following this clusterfxxk WH. Much better to at least not pay attention until later in day when thing have settled out