TirithRR wrote:
since when is the Government the trusted source on whether or not the Government is illegally wiretapping people?
Trump
is "the government". At some point, you need to decide which wing of the government is more credible because just saying "the government" is meaningless.
We have one section of The Government making claims and refusing to back them up and, in fact, saying that they
won't release any evidence to support their claims. You have another section pointing out why the first section's claims are improbable and asking for intercession to show it didn't happen. Maybe your standards are far different than mine but I'm not having much trouble determining who seems more credible right now.
Although it's certainly possible that the FBI did in fact tap phones in Trump Tower but did not tap phones specifically belonging to or in order to listen in on Trump but rather on some other member of his campaign staff. Which would actually fit the previous stories and also meet the definition of truth when saying "We did not tap Trump's phones". Really, there's not a result that helps Trump much here unless you believe that Obama actually personally decided to tap Trump but went around the FBI and FISA court to do it. Otherwise, we either have Trump ranting like a lunatic about nothing or else that the FISA court found credible reason to intercept his calls in the name of national security.
Obviously, a fair percentage of the population (and around 99.95% Trump supporters) will believe the Obama story anyway so I guess that's the pay-off for making the claims.
Edited, Mar 5th 2017 8:15pm by Jophiel