Former Obama Adviser Humiliates Trump By Explaining That Presidents Can't Order Wiretaps

[orangecrush]

After Donald Trump had accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the election, former Obama Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told Trump that it is because of people like him that presidents don’t have the power to order wiretaps.

Ben Rhodes ✔ @brhodes
No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. …

Trump’s tweets caught the White House off-guard, because they had no idea that he was going to launch into a conspiracy about Obama tapping his phones:



Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump

I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election




Former Obama Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes dropped some a humiliating facts on Trump




There is a pattern to Trump’s tweet attacks. Before the stories on Attorney General Sessions’ meetings with Russia came out, Trump went on tweet storm attacking the press and The New York Times.

A president can’t order wiretaps. It is alarming that the current president seems to have no idea what the powers of the presidency are. Rhodes was correct. Presidents don’t have the unilateral power to order wiretaps. The reason why the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General was so troubling for many was that it was a direct attack on the idea of Justice Department independence.



http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/04/obama-adviser-humiliates-trump-explaining-presidents-order-wiretaps.html

The big tell is that Trump went on a tweetstorm about this that totally caught his staff off guard.

Sounds a bit like pants shitting.

Was Trump told what was on the tapes to give him a chance to resign?

[demosincebirth]

1. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

[orangecrush]

2. This may be game over

For the coup.

[ginnyinWI]

3. tweets are an attempt to distract.

He is indeed ignorant about his job. Like the other day he said, "I hereby demand..."

But it is all hot air signifying nothing. Good investigative journalists are not going to be distracted. Only the trumpies who voted for him--those he still has in his thrall that is.

[orangecrush]

7. His hubris

Will be his downfall.

[HipChick]

4. We got a Doofus in the WH...

[orangecrush]

8. A Doofus would be preferable

To this bastard.

[Kimchijeon]

5. more open humiliation is needed, so we can

keep witnessing more public meltdowns and displays by the big orange baby.

Sooner or later the corporate MSM will deem this admin isn't gonna be profitable any longer and we can finally root the fascists out of office!

[orangecrush]

10. I have a feeling

Trump has a pretty good idea of what those wiretaps may have uncovered, and is in panic mode.

[Fred Sanders]

6. ...(laws) put in place to protect citizens from people like you (dictators) will give Trump a sad.

Who knew ordering spying on Americans by a President without judicial authority was so complicated!

[orangecrush]

9. ...

[world wide wally]

11. Trump uses his tweets to lay out talking points for his minions and they follow along

like the sheep they are by hammering home his talking points in every blog and discussion forum they can find.
He knows they are not very bright, and they will repeat anything he says.

[orangecrush]

12. Bannon

Is the orange whisperer