Almost two weeks ago (though it feels like seven-thousand news cycles ago), as Donald Trump's administration faced growing scrutiny for its connections to Russia during the campaign, as well as all of the fucking lies they've told to cover up their connections to Russia during the campaign, Trump attempted to change the conversation by doing what he always does: saying dumb shit on Twitter.

Now even at the time, this claim seemed to be based on nothing, but now with the benefit of eleven days of people looking into it, it turns out that... IT WAS BASED ON NOTHING. First Sean Spicer got up to his podium and talked about how when Trump said Obama wiretapped him, he wasn't actually talking about Obama wiretapping him. Look, Sean has a tough job but that's just nuts. And now, even Congressional Republicans are saying that there is no evidence of wiretapping. What would you call that? When someone says something that ends up being untrue. I know there's a specific word for it, but I just can't— LYING. HE WAS LYING! So is that what Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes called it? Nope:

"If you're going to take the tweets literally, then clearly the President was wrong." But Nunes went onto say if the President has more general concerns about him or his people being surveilled "either appropriately or inappropriately" they want to find that out. First off, Adam Schiff is looking at Nunes in that moment like, I didn't come out here with you for you to spin this, and I love it. Second, ARE YOU JOKING?

We shouldn't have to decode the President's words. He said Obama "tapped his wires." There is no evidence to support that claim and in fact no evidence that Trump Tower was even tapped. That's a lie. Call it a lie. It's disgusting the lengths these guys are going to get their shitty "tax cuts for the rich" agenda through. Are those cuts really worth selling out the legitimacy of our democratic institutions? Republicans clearly think so.

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