Look at what we’ve learned just during Trump’s presidency. Our intelligence agencies—forbidden by law to spy on Americans—not only did exactly that, but spied not just on ordinary citizens, which would have been bad enough, not even just on incoming officials in a new administration, which is even worse, but on a major party presidential candidate in the middle of a presidential race. And did so at the direction and with the full knowledge of the incumbent president and his most senior cabinet officials and aides. The FBI—supposedly the sterling example of American rectitude—contrived a phony
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