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Former FBI Solicitor General James Baker said that the Trump campaign was never spied on or subjected to data collection techniques.

Trump’s campaign was not spied on

Baker said on MSNBC’s MTP Daily, “I can’t remember exactly what the government’s confirmed about that. Just talk about surveillance for a second. If you’re talking about electronic surveillance for the purpose of obtaining political intelligence, what the campaign is doing in the campaign, then to my knowledge, that never occurred, I never –”

Chuck Todd asked Baker if metadata was collected on the Trump campaign. He answered, “I guess that anything is possible, but to my knowledge, I don’t believe that kind of activity was going on either. In order to obtain information about the political intentions, strategy of the campaign, what we were focused on all the time, what this whole thing about was Russia. What were they up to.”

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Trump is trying to create a counter scandal to muddy the waters

Trump is using a tactic that he deployed during the 2016 election when he was able to distract attention from his own scandals by distracting voters with bogus Clinton scandals. The only difference between 2019 and 2016 is that Trump’s target has shifted from Hillary Clinton to the FBI. Trump is one trick pony. He doesn’t evolve or change. He only has one strategy for each occasion.

The FBI never spied on Donald Trump. Members of the Trump campaign were caught by US intelligence because they were hanging out with Russians who were under investigation.

`Trump is going to keeping spinning his tale, and Barr will do his bidding with bogus investigations because it is their only path to maintaining power. Now that he is president, the 2020 election isn’t going to be about the FBI or spying the only topic on the ballot will be the unpopular presidency of Donald Trump. False attacks on the FBI can’t save the sinking Trump presidency.

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