CLEVELAND,Ohio -- According to a Washington Post fact check tally, President Trump has made over 3,000 misleading or false claims since being sworn in. 'Spygate' is just the lastest Trump lie, following doozies like 'Wiretapgate,' 'Memogate' and the biggest inauguration crowd ever. 'Spygate' is only topped 'Birtherism.'

Trump has claimed Obama had an FBI spy embedded in his 2016 presidential campaign. The Department of Justice was forced last week to provide two separate classified briefings on its use of an FBI informant in the department's investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election.

The first briefing session was attended by Reps Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy. The second session was attended by both Republican and Democrat Congressional leaders in the so-called Gang of Eight.

Chief of Staff John Kelly and Trump's lawyer, Emmett Flood also made an appearance at the classified sessions, which is unprecedented and highly inappropriate.

After the second briefing, Rep Adam Schiff addressed reporters on behalf of all Democrat leaders in the meeting, which included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

"Nothing we heard today has changed our view that there is no evidence to support any allegation that the FBI or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the Trump campaign or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols," said Schiff.

Schiff has appropriately dubbed Trump's 'Spygate' claim 'Liegate."

FBI Informant is a Republican who worked for President Reagan.

The FBI appropriately used an informant as part of a legitimate counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference into the Trump campaign and the election.

Instead of being a political attack on the Trump campaign, the FBI was seeking to find out if the campaign was being targeted by the Russians.

After being tipped off by Australian intelligence that the Russians may be trying to infiltrate the Trump campaign and interfere with the elections, the FBI had a longtime informant working in the U.K. reach out to Carter Page and George Papadopoulos to see if there was enough substance to the Australian intel claims to pursue an expanded investigation into Russian interference. The DOJ, FBI and its informant were doing the job taxpayers pay and expect them to do -- protect the U.S. and sanctity of its elections.

Papadopoulos later would plead guilty in the Russian investigation. He is one of several people who have already been indicted in the ongoing Mueller probe.

Instead of being an Obama plant in the Trump campaign. The longtime FBI informant is a Republican who once worked for Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, who now works as a professor in the U.K. with a focus on espionage.

The only spies in the "Spygate" briefing were the discredited Devin Nunes, John Kelly and Trump lawyer Emmett Flood, seeking to get classified information on Mueller's investigation, of which Trump and several of his staffers are a subject of.

Rudy Giuliani has said he hopes participants in the briefings leak classified investigation information to The White House.

Trump's and Nunes' demand for the classified briefing are the latest example of Trump blatantly attempting to obstruct the Russian investigation.

Flood and Kelly attending the classified briefings is a highly inappropriate infringement on what is supposed to be the strict independence of the Department of Justice to conduct an investigation involving members of the executive branch.

It should be remembered that on the week before the nation remembers the men and women in the armed forces who gave their lives to defend American democracy, the Commander-in-Chief, with five deferments, launched his latest authoritarian attack on America's democratic institutions and principals to save himself.