Tucker: FBI Targeted Trump For Policy Differences On Russia

Fox News
Jan. 15, 2019

We want to bring you the latest on what was really a remarkable story that broke late Friday in the New York Times. According to what are apparently high-level sources within the Department of Justice, in 2017 the FBI secretly began an investigation into whether President Trump was, in fact, a Russian agent.

The FBI believed that the president could be a one-man sleeper cell, personally taking direct orders from his handlers in Moscow, and working from within the Oval Office to subvert this country. The FBI said they believed that. So they spied on the President of the United States.

Well, shocking doesn’t even begin to describe this story. Nothing like this has ever happened in this country. The allegations are literally without precedent. That is not an overstatement.

By the way, the allegations are not true. The FBI did not find that Donald Trump is a Russian agent. No charges were filed against him. None will be.

But an equally important question remains unanswered: How did this happen? Deciding that a sitting president should be investigated for treason is not a small thing. Officials within the FBI had to push for that investigation, and then marshal evidence to justify it. Leaders at the very highest levels of the agency had to sign off on the whole thing. All of which happened. But on what grounds exactly? That’s what we would need to know to understand this.

Thanks to the Times story, we have some sense of the answer. If you’re imagining a secret transmitter covered in Cyrillic script discovered hidden in the Lincoln bedroom, no, think again. There were no cloak and dagger clues in this case. Apparently, the FBI assumed Trump might be a Russian agent not because of anything he did in secret, but because of things he said in public, standing on stage, on camera, while running for president.

"There’s nothing I’d rather do than to have Russia friendly as opposed to the way they are right now," Trump said while on the campaign trail in July 2016. "Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually go along with – as an example – Russia? I’m all for it."

According to the FBI, those words are evidence that Trump may have betrayed his country. That’s their view. But there’s another way to look at those words. Maybe Trump’s right..

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