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Thursday, May 24, 2018

TRUMP ON CANCELLED SUMMIT WITH NORTH KOREA: "THIS IS A TREMENDOUS SETBACK FOR NORTH KOREA", & THE WORLD

TRUMP ON CANCELLED SUMMIT WITH NORTH KOREA: "THIS IS A TREMENDOUS SETBACK FOR NORTH KOREA", & THE WORLD

 Mike Pompeo On NK After President Trump 
Cancels Summit 5/24/18
BEFORE: Mike Pompeo threatens with ‘strongest sanctions in history outlines new deal demands by Trump

THE NETHERLANDS: 1400 UNDER AGE DUTCH GIRLS FORCED INTO SEX SLAVERY BY "MIGRANT BACKGROUND" MALES

THE NETHERLANDS: 1400 UNDER AGE DUTCH GIRLS FORCED INTO SEX SLAVERY BY "MIGRANT BACKGROUND" MALES 
BY JON HALL
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/05/the-netherlands-1400-underage-dutch-girls-forced-into-sex-slavery-by-migrant-background-malesrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
In a startling report in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD), it has been revealed that more than a thousand girls will be blackmailed and forced into prostitution over the course of a year in the Netherlands.
The article discusses the work of Watch Netherlands — a cooperative organization between the Center Against Child and Human Trafficking and Fier and Terre des Hommes, an aid organization.
Watch Netherlands operates from an action center in Randstad with a dozen researchers and IT specialists, who search for evidence of child exploitation after it is reported by parents, taxi drivers, or even the victims of the sexual abuse themselves.
The AD article makes reference to “loverboys” — sex traffickers, of whom “the lion’s share has a migration background”.
The report by AD also reveals that Watch Netherlands transferred more than 70 cases to authorities last year. Watch Netherlands investigates how many victims a sex trafficker ensnares, where the children are offered for sale, and where victims are kept hidden. The organization even has private detectives that are sent out to observe on location to gather evidence.
The traffickers will befriend and manipulate young girls into having sex with them and will proceed to film or take a photo during their initial sexual foray, thus blackmailing the girl.
Marijke van Overveld and Esmee Huijps, Dutch police specialists in human trafficking, say of the “loverboys”:
It’s not even necessary to lure the girls by being loving. Once they have a compromising video of you, that is enough for blackmail. Especially for young girls, whose parents do not know anything.
Van Overveld also points out that there are nearly 1,400 underage victims yearly. Once the blackmail is obtained, the girls are forced into prostitution. Traffickers of mostly Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean, or Romany descent abuses and lures girls into the “lucrative trade,” sometimes “earning up to 800 euros a day on a girl.”
AD also explains that the “loverboys” are also tied into other, more heinous crimes, such as drug and weapons trafficking. Carolien van den Honert, policy officer at the Center for Sexuality and Human Trafficking states:
These are seasoned criminals… often with an online network for customer recruitment.
Watch Netherlands is actively trying to end such online trades of traffickers by deterring customers with their own “lure ads.” Customers who attempt to buy girls via the organization’s bait ads are e-mailed “Watch Netherlands knows you now, make sure we never meet you again.
With traffickers getting smarter and using less obvious methods — such as driving ordinary cars and luring girls using only online methods — it is a cat-and-mouse game between “loverboys” and police. 
Along with Watch Netherlands’ investigation and work, emphasis is being placed on prevention — with police training focusing on recognizing signals from parents and victims regarding sexual abuse. Concerned family members or teachers are urged to speak up if they notice something amiss.
Sex trafficking has long been the norm in the United Kingdomwith cases against 20 groomers in Telford, England being recently dropped, despite decades of sexual exploitation against young girls.
Small communities will continue to be rocked and manipulated by migrants with bad intentions, as long as unfettered access across borders is allowed in Europe. At what point does one declare that enough is enough and the safety and security of innocent children comes before the well-being of refugees, many of whom have values that are incompatible with Western society?

NEW JERSEY ACTION NEEDED: SENATE COMMITTEE PASSES MULTIPLE GUN CONTROL BILLS

NEW JERSEY ACTION NEEDED: 
SENATE COMMITTEE PASSES MULTIPLE 
GUN CONTROL BILLS
BY NRAHQ
SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2018/05/new-jersey-action-needed-senate-committee-passes-multiple-gun-control-bills/#axzz5GQPhy4kjrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- This week the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee considered and passed multiple anti-gun measures.  The below listed bills will now head to the Senate floor.  Companion versions of these bills have already passed the Assembly, so your Senator needs to hear from you now more than ever.  Please contact your state Senator and urge them to OPPOSE these gun control bills.
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  • S.102 by Sen. Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D) is a magazine and gun ban.  This legislation would ban magazines with a capacity greater than 10.  We all know magazine bans do nothing except punish law-abiding gun owners because criminals by definition ignore laws.  This bill would put honest citizens in jeopardy during violent criminal attacks and would subject them to prosecution for possessing what is currently legal property.  This bill would turn the majority of New Jersey’s 1 million gun owners into felons overnight.
  • S.160 by Sen. Vin Gopal (D) would allow for suspension of gun rights by unaccountable “health professionals.”  This bill goes so far as to allow marriage counselors, social workers and nurses to cause suspension of your legal rights.
  • S.2376 by Sen. Linda Greenstein (D) codifies New Jersey’s “justifiable need” standard for the issuance of concealed carry permits.  The bill is a striking blow to the basic fundamental right to self-defense outside the home.  It creates a standard so onerous that nobody can meet it, hence the issuance of permits in New Jersey is close to non-existent.
  • S.2245 by Sen. Fred Madden, Jr. (D) bans handgun ammunition which is already banned under federal law.  This bill does nothing to improve public safety and is a classic example of the asinine nature of New Jersey gun laws as a whole.  This is nothing more than political pandering to gun banners.
  • S.2374 by Sen. Linda Greenstein (D) would require background checks on all firearm transfers.  Again, this is redundant because all transactions in New Jersey require a background check.  The private transfer of long guns requires an FID card and the issuance of that card requires fingerprinting, a background check and references, among other things.  This bill does nothing except add another layer of bureaucracy and fees to an already cumbersome and duplicative process.
  • S.2465 by Sen. Joseph Cryan (D) would prohibit purchasing firearm components to unlawfully manufacture a firearm without a serial number.  This bill has not been heard in the Assembly yet.
Again, please contact your state Senator immediately and strongly urge them to OPPOSE the above listed anti-gun legislation.
One of the scheduled bills, S.2259 by Sen. Richard Codey (D), was held from the agenda and not considered.  S.2259 creates extreme risk protection orders whereby firearms can be seized and constitutional rights suspended with little to no due process.  The bill fails to penalize those who fabricate accusations, and it does nothing to improve public safety.
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STARBUCKS NOW GIVING AWAY FREE COFFEE WITH PROMO CODE: RACISM~GET YOUR FREE DRINK TODAY

STARBUCKS NOW GIVING AWAY FREE COFFEE WITH PROMO CODE: RACISM

GET YOUR FREE DRINK TODAY
BY TRAVIS KNIGHT
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/starbucks-now-giving-away-free-coffee-with-promo-code-racism/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Starbucks has long been known as a liberal company that pushes their trendy, left-wing agenda. Now, merely saying you heard Starbucks was racist can get you free coffee and perhaps even a free covfefe.

Soros Open Society Foundation Literally Behind Starbucks Racial Training

Starbucks has partnered with The Perception Institute to implement implicit bias training. The move is seen as costly and ineffective, so why has Starbucks chosen to make such a controversial move? The Infowars team has uncovered a money trail that leads.
SEE:
https://www.infowars.com/soros-open-society-literally-behind-starbucks-sensitivity-training/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The organization conducting Starbucks’ racial sensitivity training, The Perception Institute, receives “generous” contributions from globalist kingpins George Soros and the Ford Foundation.
With campaigns such as “Black Male Re-imagined,” The Perception Institute aims to put an end to accusations of discrimination after a Starbucks worker called police on two black customers.
However, with such “generous supporters” as the Ford Foundation, the W.K Kellogg Foundation and Open Society Foundation, chaired by Soros, Starbucks’ obsession with race is about to hit high gear.
Soros and the Ford Foundation, for instance, have been behind such racial initiatives as the Black Lives Matter movement, which nurtures a black people versus police mentality, and ignores police violence against other Americans.
As other companies follow suit, The Perception Institute will ensure racial division remains a key part of your coffee-buying experience.
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Starbucks Manager Tells Of Political Correctness Brainwashing 

A whistleblower/ Starbucks manager joins Alex Jones live over the phone to exclusively reveal the political correct brainwashing they received at the Starbucks racial sensitivity training session.

STARBUCKS TRAINING: EMPLOYEES FORCED TO WATCH ‘VIDEO AFTER VIDEO’ OF WHITE COPS ATTACKING BLACKS


The only purpose of a propaganda reel like that is to generate anti-white racial hatred

BY Chris Menahan | Information Liberation
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/starbucks-training-employees-forced-to-watch-video-after-video-of-white-cops-attacking-blacks/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

“At one point a girl at my table actually had to get up and leave because video after video they showed black people being assaulted by police or black people being verbally assaulted and white people being racially biased toward people of color,” a young black female Starbucks employee told Philly Mag after being forced to take part in their “racial sensitivity” training course this week.
From Philly Mag:
Starbucks billed Tuesday’s training as “one step” in addressing racial bias, and national reports have called the company’s move an “important start.” But for two Philadelphia Starbucks employees I talked to, the training merely “targeted” people of color and exacerbated racial tensions.
I spoke with the baristas separately on Tuesday evening after they attended the training at a Sheraton hotel with employees from about four districts in the region. Between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., they had sat with fellow employees listening to a few presentations, watching a number of videos, journaling, and occasionally talking to colleagues and session leaders in small self-guided groups. (Starbucks has made all materials from the training session available here.)
Both baristas told me that the training had missed the mark completely. Instead of addressing racial tension head on, the training mostly “beat around the bush,” said one of the baristas, a 24-year-old Latino man we’ll call Jamie. “I was really disappointed when I walked out of there because I was expecting so much more,” said the other barista, an 18-year-old black woman we will call Tina.
[…]”It felt like we were off task the entire time because we didn’t reflect on the situation itself,” said Tina, who has worked at Starbucks for a year. “The training materials focused a lot on police brutality, which had nothing to do with the incident that happened.”
According to Jamie, the Starbucks representatives leading the session got close to talking about the arrest of the two black men only when attendees brought it up.
The Focus on Police Brutality Was Upsetting
“The videos of cops knocking people down and fighting people were really disturbing,” Tina explained. “I told them I didn’t like the video and they told me they understood and that I was open to give my opinion.” What does watching videos about police brutality have to do with the situation that happened, Tina said she kept asking herself. “They went too deep into it and missed the point all at the same time.”
“At one point,” said Jamie, “a girl at my table actually had to get up and leave because video after video they showed black people being assaulted by police or black people being verbally assaulted and white people being racially biased toward people of color. It offended her. She left after that.”
The Training Felt More Like an African-American History Class
“We got too deep into black history and got past what I thought was the point of the session,” Tina said, pointing out that one of the videos they watched went back to lunch-counter sit-ins of the 1960s.
[…]As Starbucks previously announced, the training videos featured the rapper Common, but it was unclear to the baristas why he was included. “It made it seem like they were pandering to us as a people, which is rude,” said Jamie. “What does Common know about anything that we’re going through? What does he have to do with anything?”
[…]Though Starbucks attempted to get people to confront stereotypes and unconscious biases with the new phrase, the exercise left Tina feeling singled out. “I feel like a lot of people of color were targeted [yesterday], and I know that wasn’t the whole objective of having that meeting,” said Tina. “Every activity focused on people of color and how they feel about their race.” Tina left all of the following questions in her journal blank, calling the exercise “just ridiculous.”
I’m guessing this is the sickening propaganda video which made her friend break down:
Starbucks exec Howard Schultz is a sick person who wants to exacerbate racial tensions to advance his un-American agenda (there’s a good chance he’s going to try to run against Trump in 2020).
The 16-year-old black teen seen being choked by a cop in that Starbucks propaganda video started a “riot” inside the Waffle House he was eating at and two people called 911 on him. He was “choked” because he was aggressively resisting arrest.

The only purpose of a propaganda reel like that is to generate anti-white racial hatred — which is exactly what Schultz and his Democrat cronies want to drive up turnout for 2020.


TONY CAMPOLO, PROMOTER OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE, WELCOMED AT NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE

TONY CAMPOLO, PROMOTER OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE, WELCOMED AT NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE
BY MANNY SILVA
SEE: https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2018/05/22/promoter-of-same-sex-marriage-tony-campolo-welcomed-at-nazarene-theological-college/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Tony Campolo was a recent featured speaker at Nazarene Theological College on May 17. This is very troubling in the long list of troubling signs regarding the future of the Church of the Nazarene. The most recent issue with Campolo is his outright promotion of same sex marriage as being fully compatible with the Christian lifestyle. So why does a Nazarene college invite such an enemy of Christ to speak?
I can only think of two possibilities of why Tony Campolo was allowed to set foot on the campus of a Nazarene college or seminary. It was either from total and complete ignorance of what this man stands for, or the other explanation is that the leadership of this college has no problem with having a speaker who promotes same-sex marriage. I do not for a minute believe that the leadership of any Nazarene university is stupid and ignorant, therefore the only other explanation is certainly alarming to those who are concerned with the movement towards eventual acceptance of homosexuality as compatible with Christianity.

What Tony Campolo Believes In
Mr. Campolo is an avid promoter of contemplative mysticism, he believes in evolution, he rejects the inerrancy of scripture, he is an ecumenist, he has described man as divine, he believes non-Christians might go to heaven, he promotes Roman Catholic practices, he believes in praying to people, he has a disdain for fundamentalists. And now he has changed his view on homosexuality and same sex marriage.

Campolo’s New View On Same Sex Marriage
On June 8, 2015, Mr. Campolo made his position perfectly clear regarding same sex marriage:
“It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.” https://tonycampolo.org/for-the-record-tony-campolo-releases-a-new-statement/
As you read the entire article, you notice that this man’s position comes not from an “authority of scripture” perspective, but from a selfish vantage point that all post-modernists and liberals view from: the “I believe” view, the “what I think” view, the “intellectual analysis” view. See these examples:
“One reason I am changing my position on this issue is that, through Peggy [Campolo’s wife], I have come to know so many gay Christian couples whose relationships work in much the same way as our own.”
“I have concluded that sexual orientation is almost never a choice and I have seen how damaging it can be to try to “cure” someone from being gay.”
Campolo also makes false assumptions and gives strawman arguments for the acceptance of same sex marriage. Nothing he argues comes close to referencing scripture, except when he suggests that we will never fully know who is right regarding the subject of homosexuality and same sex marriage.
“As a Christian, my responsibility is not to condemn or reject gay people, but rather to love and embrace them…”
“I just knew too many wonderful Christian people who are in gay relationships…”
“Obviously, people of good will can and do read the scriptures very differently when it comes to controversial issues, and I am painfully aware that there are ways I could be wrong about this one.”
And notice what he says is the greatest influence in nurturing him as a Christian. It is not the Bible. It is not Jesus Christ.
“If I was asked, what has been the greatest influence in nurturing you as a Christian, I would have to say, it’s my wife. No church, no organization, no studies, nothing has nurtured me more as a Christian..”
It is his wife! Yes, his wife, a fallible human being, is his greatest influence in his Christian growth. Central Baptist Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where his wife attends, is “an open and affirming congregation.” This means that her church accepts unrepentant practicing homosexuals as members.
Perhaps that is one of the contributing factors to this poor man’s error-filled ways of thinking. His justification for approving same sex marriage does not come from scripture. It comes from his observation that since he had such an uplifting, satisfying marriage with his wife, why should same sex couples be denied the same experience?
In 2006, the Pacific Southwest region of the American Baptist Convention voted to withdraw from the denomination because of its relaxed policies on homosexuality. This is a problem in many ABC churches, as many accept unrepentant homosexuals as members. Tony Campolo criticized the withdrawal decision, saying that it “runs counter to the prayer of Christ that we might all be one people.”
This is the man that Nazarene Theological College was proud to bring to campus and expose to all the students!
Conclusion
The appearance of Tony Campolo at another Nazarene college ought to be no shock to those of you who have been seeing the very unraveling of the Church of the Nazarene. It is but a symptom of what ails the church. That ailment is a progressive spiritual death of holiness and biblical principles. What is shocking is how fast, in the last four years or so, the church is stumbling into life-support status. And homosexuality is what is getting the Church of the Nazarene onto its death bed faster than anything I could have imagined nine years ago.
In my warning about Andy McGee and his LGBT group (back on April 2, 2018) which I sent to the General Superintendents (to one of them personally), and to every district office in the United States and in Canada, I received only two responses. Both responses were requests to take them off my mailing list. That’s all. Nothing else, no words of concern, no questions, no rebukes…just silence. It is a deafening silence that has gone on for years now.
Where are the voices? Do so few care? Do even so few know what is happening in the church? Is it an innocent ignorance, or a deliberate action by many to pretend all is well with the emperor and his clothes? Where are the Orville Jenkins, Jrs to sound the warnings to the people? Where are the Joe Staniforths who spoke out and were willing to lose everything in the church rather than betray the Lord Jesus Christ? Where are the Rick Headleys who defied the church’s demand to capitulate to worldly methods and philosophies?  Where are the John Hendersons and the Jeff Allens, fearless in speaking out against the moral decline in the church? These are just a few.
I know they are out there, and many of them are standing up for the truth right now, and perhaps paying a heavy price. I just simply do not know or cannot list all their names and all their circumstances, but they are there, and we thank them for their faithfulness. But yet, so few are still turning a blind eye to the truth, which leads to such spectacles as a homosexual marriage promoter- and an ENEMY of the church- being given the opportunity to further damage the church, and to further help destroy a denomination that is moving from holiness to heresy. To those who know what is wrong, and continue to say nothing, you may have to answer to the Lord someday for your inaction and silence.
Manny Silva
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NAME OF SPY IN TRUMP CAMPAIGN REVEALED; TRUMP DEMANDS INVESTIGATION

Trump: ‘Criminal Deep State’ Caught Up In ‘Major Spy Scandal’
NAME OF SPY IN TRUMP CAMPAIGN REVEALED; TRUMP DEMANDS INVESTIGATION 
BY C. MITCHELL SHAW
SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/29102-name-of-spy-in-trump-campaign-revealed-trump-demands-investigationrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The name of the FBI spy placed in the Trump campaign in 2016 has been revealed, and it turns out this isn’t his first time infiltrating a political campaign as a spy. Seventy-three-year-old University of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper — who was planted in the Trump campaign to report to the FBI — did the same thing for Reagan’s 1980 campaign, according to multiple reports.
As The Intercept is reporting:
Four decades ago, Halper was responsible for a long-forgotten spying scandal involving the 1980 election, in which the Reagan campaign — using CIA officials managed by Halper, reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush — got caught running a spying operation from inside the Carter administration. The plot involved CIA operatives passing classified information about Carter’s foreign policy to Reagan campaign officials in order to ensure the Reagan campaign knew of any foreign policy decisions that Carter was considering.
On May 10, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel reported that the FBI “source” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was seeking to learn more about was actually a spy the FBI had planted in the Trump campaign. The FBI and DOJ had “stalled” and “stonewalled” Nunes — going so far as to refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to provide the information. Only after Nunes threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress did DOJ back down and brief committee members on the “specific individual.”
Strassel ended her explosive article by saying:
I believe I know the name of the informant, but my intelligence sources did not provide it to me and refuse to confirm it. It would therefore be irresponsible to publish it. But what is clear is that we’ve barely scratched the surface of the FBI’s 2016 behavior, and the country will never get the straight story until President Trump moves to declassify everything possible. It’s time to rip off the Band-Aid.
This writer — simply projecting the lines — predicted that others would “do the same digging she has done and the name will likely soon be known. And when it is known, it's going to be a bad day for the DOJ and FBI.”
The past week and a half has been abuzz with speculation. Now, as Fox News is reporting, it is known that the New York Times and Washington Post “have known of Halper’s identity for weeks, but chose not to reveal his name. Then on Thursday, the Daily Caller named Halper in the opening paragraph of its report.”
Of course, now that Halper has been revealed as the spy, the FBI and DOJ look more than a little ridiculous for having trotted out the tired old line about how revealing his name would “threaten national security” and could result in “loss of human lives.” Given Halper’s past — particularly his running a spying operation inside the Carter administration for George H.W. Bush during Reagan’s successful bid to unseat Carter — it is much more believable that the FBI and DOJ were really just concerned about getting caught with their pants down.
As The Intercept reported:
To begin with, it’s obviously notable that the person the FBI used to monitor the Trump campaign is the same person who worked as a CIA operative running that 1980 Presidential election spying campaign.
It was not until several years after Reagan’s victory over Carter did this scandal emerge. It was leaked by right-wing officials inside the Reagan administration who wanted to undermine officials they regarded as too moderate, including then White House Chief of Staff James Baker, who was a Bush loyalist.
The NYT in 1983 said the Reagan campaign spying operation “involved a number of retired Central Intelligence Agency officials and was highly secretive.” The article, by then-NYT reporter Leslie Gelb, added that its “sources identified Stefan A. Halper, a campaign aide involved in providing 24-hour news updates and policy ideas to the traveling Reagan party, as the person in charge.” Halper, now 73, had also worked with Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Alexander Haig as part of the Nixon administration.
In response to the scandal, President Trump tweeted Sunday: “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes — and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
It is shaping up to be a bad time, indeed, for the FBI and DOJ.
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TRUMP: ‘CRIMINAL DEEP STATE’ CAUGHT UP IN ‘MAJOR SPY SCANDAL’

POTUS dubs it “spygate” in tweetstorm

BY STEVE WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/trump-criminal-deep-state-caught-up-in-major-spy-scandal/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
President Trump issued a patented tweetstorm in the early hours of the morning and first thing Wednesday, slamming former intelligence officials and declaring that the ‘Criminal deep state’ has become caught up in a ‘major spy scandal’.
“Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State.” Trump wrote.
“They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!” the President added.
“What goes around comes around!” Trump exclaimed.
In a further tweet, Trump declared that this could be one of the biggest political scandals in history.
The President also quoted Fox News legal expert Judge Andrew Napolitano:
The President also slammed former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who appeared on The View Tuesday and said Trump should be ‘happy’ that the FBI monitored his campaign.
“No, James Clapper, I am not happy,” Trump tweeted.
“Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!” he added.
Earlier in the evening Clapper appeared on CNN and claimed that spying on Presidential candidates constitutes “standard investigative practices”:
Trump’s latest tweets followed on from several earlier ones, in which the President claimed that a spy infiltrated his 2016 campaign to “help Crooked Hillary win.”
Trump said at the White House Tuesday that it would be “very illegal” if there were spies in his campaign.
“A lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. If they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country. That would be one of the biggest insults that anyone has ever seen, it would be very illegal aside from everything else,” he said.
Weighing in on the matter, Former Speaker and staunch Trump ally New Gingrich said that Clapper and the rest could face severe punishment:
“People like Clapper and the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, all these guys thought they could get away with this… Now you are watching people who I think in every case are in danger of going to jail. If the system works and people are actually tested on, ‘Did you tell the truth under oath?’ Clapper’s a perfect example.” Gingrich noted.