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1/ Based on @paulsperry_ article yesterday: As insane as it was for Comey to be surveilling the President, his actions also establish that up through the day he was fired, Comey didn’t have the required legal predicate to open an investigation on Trump.

realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…
2/ Yet McCabe with only three additional pieces of information, Comey’s firing, a TV interview and Trump meeting with the Russian Ambassador each of which were completely within the proper use of Article 2 Presidential power, opened an obstruction and CI investigation.
3/ This followed his testimony in the Senate where he testified Trump had done nothing to impede the Russia investigation.

4/ Today Trump tells you every action he took was well within his Article 2 powers. But this wasn’t his first reference to the time period following Comey’s firing.

5/ Back in January Trump specifically said in an interview that “After I fired him, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok,his lover Lisa Page... They did it!”

6/ So how does this all relate to the @paulsperry_ article? Well it seems two things were true under Comey. He did everything possible to uncover any plans of obstruction or coordination with the Russians and he did not think there was a sufficient basis to open an investigation.
7/ Yet, it also seems clear that McCabe, Strzok and Page didn’t agree and were waiting for the day Comey was gone and “Andy [was] acting”.

Why were they “waiting”? Evidentially what changed? Was it a proper predicate or a contrived excuse?

8/ Yesterday I tweeted about how significant it was that Horowitz had reviewed the tweets of the top level leadership of the FBI.

9/ But why is that so significant? Because it likely reveals that the actions taken after Comey was fired were premeditated.

10/ The more we understand what Comey was doing to discover what was happening in the White House, the more a crucial question arises.
11/ Why and on what evidentiary basis, in the period after Comey’s firing and his Senate testimony, did McCabe arrive at the extraordinarily controversial decision to open an investigation on the duly elected President of the United States?
12/ What we know from reporting by @CNN at the time is that the @FBI during that period was motivated to “reign in” Trump. Is that an appropriate basis to open an investigation? Sounds like an attempt to leverage POTUS.

13/ Comey has a spy in the White House, is how it’s being framed but it could also be said that the Trump admin allowed Comey eyes and ears in the White House. Unless you believe Trump didn’t know of this FBI arrangement. Which is possible but imo unlikely.
14/ This was reporting out of Fox. It was only broadcast for 24 hours and then memory holed. But I don’t forget.

15/ With each day and new revelation this tweet becomes more confirmed. Trump ran a massive sting on McCabe.

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