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Donald Trump’s journey into and out of the Oval Office was shaped by xenophobia, conspiracy theories and xenophobic conspiracy theories. Trump launched his political career by spreading the “birther” lie about President Obama, and then became Obama’s improbable successor with an anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim presidential campaign. Upon losing the White House four years later, Trump, true to form, blamed his ouster on a vast election fraud conspiracy aided according to flunkies Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell by “communist money,” “Venezuelan” voting machines, as well as Chinese and Iranian hackers. The right-wing mob that attacked the Capitol to thwart the certification of
Spygate Investigation Not Over Yet
A presidential memorandum for the special counsel.
Attorney General Bill Barr at a Monday news conference in Washington. Photo: Pool/Getty Images By Dec. 22, 2020 7:31 pm ET
FBI officials who abused the rights of Americans participating in the 2016 Trump campaign may be breathing a little easier with Attorney General Bill Barr leaving office this week and President Donald Trump approaching the end of his term. But a presidential memorandum released today suggests that special counsel John Durham may soon be bringing new information to a grand jury.
Mr. Barr described the 2016 campaign abuses in an interview last week with the Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel:
FBI Listened to Papadopoulos’s Call on Elusive Grounds, Documents Indicate
News Analysis
The FBI listened to at least one phone call of former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, according to a recently released text message of Peter Strzok, former head of FBI counterintelligence operations.
The text raises the question of what authority the FBI had to conduct such surveillance, particularly because, based on the text, the call with the Fox News executive took place on Jan. 11, 2017, two weeks before Papadopoulos’s voluntary FBI interview during which he later admitted he lied. Lying was the only crime he was charged with in the sprawling investigation into supposed collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, which failed to substantiate that any such collusion occurred.