yankeesince59
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Spygate-
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/06/trump-spygate-rooney-629550
Rep. Tom Rooney, a top Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, is ripping President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that the FBI inserted a spy inside his campaign.
"What is the point of saying that there was a spy in the campaign when there was none?" Rooney said in an interview on Wednesday. "You know what I’m saying? It’s like, ‘Lets create this thing to tweet about knowing that it’s not true.’ … Maybe it’s just to create more chaos but it doesn’t really help the case."
Though Rooney isn't the first GOP lawmaker to question Trump's assertion, his comments were the most forceful repudiation to date from a Republican lawmaker. Rooney, a three-term Florida Republican who is retiring at the end of the year, was one of three GOP House members to lead the Intelligence Committee's year-long Russia probe after Chairman Devin Nunes stepped aside.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), one of the other Russia probe leaders, was the first to undercut Trump's "spygate" claims, telling TV interviewers last week that far from inappropriately surveilling Trump, the FBI was responsibly pursuing leads about Russian attempts to infiltrate the campaign.
Gowdy was one of nine lawmakers briefed by the Justice Department and FBI last month on the use of an informant to glean information from Trump campaign associates believed to have suspect ties to Russia. His comments endorsing the FBI tactic stirred Trump allies, who panned Gowdy and said he was taking the word of a Justice Department....
...sadly, it seems that the only GOP members who have have enough backbone to call out Trump for his BS are the ones who are leaving office anyway...the others are too chicken-shit to say what they really think of Trump and are putting their re-election concerns ahead of simply doing the right thing and doing what's collectively best for this country as a whole.