What happened

President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul J. Manafort, was wiretapped by U.S. investigators who were acting under court order, according to this recent report.

What we know

• This past March, President Trump made a widely ridiculed claim that former President Barack Obama had his “wires tapped” at Trump Tower.
• A recent report said that Manafort, who has a residence in Trump Tower, has been under court-ordered surveillance beginning before the November election and continuing through early 2017.
• The report has forced skeptics to give possible credence to Trump’s wiretapping claims.
• Special council Robert S. Mueller, who is leading the investigation into possible Russian involvement with the election, has been provided with the surveillance reports.

Tom's take:

President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitten, joined Dana Loesch today on “Dana.” He explained that to “take a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant [and] use the intelligence surveillance powers of the United States to target an American citizen,” was an unusually aggressive act against Manafort. “When Trump said, ‘I was wiretapped’ … everyone laughed at him. The media made fun of him and said ‘what evidence does he have?’ But he was right,” added Fitten.

“In my view, I think the big scandal here is … we had a president who abused and misused the IRS, [and] who worked with the justice Department and the FBI in 2012 to target the same groups that the IRS was after. Robert Mueller was running the FBI at the time … Is it any stretch to think that they would use the awesome powers of the Federal Government to target again their opposition during a political campaign?” he asked.

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