Trump just won’t let the spying thing go
But perhaps Trump’s wildest tweet of the morning came when he used a quote from a discredited conspiracy theorist to reiterate an unfounded idea he first pushed two years ago about the Obama administration “spying” on his campaign.
Citing the Trump-friendly news outlet One America News, Trump tweeted, “‘Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson accuses United Kingdom Intelligence of helping Obama Administration Spy on the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign.’ ... WOW! It is now just a question of time before the truth comes out, and when it does, it will be a beauty!”...
Suffice it to say that Larry Johnson, the former CIA officer Trump cites, is not a credible source. As the Independent detailed two years ago when Johnson was involved in Trump’s first failed effort to convince the public that Obama spied on him, Johnson has a long history of spreading baseless conspiracy theories about prominent Democrats:...
Trump has been tweeting nonsense about a variety of topics
While Trump’s Wednesday morning tweets were especially off the rails, Monday and Tuesday weren’t much better. Trump tweeted bogus theories about how the impeachment process works, falsely claimed Mueller didn’t seek testimony from people in his inner circle, retweeted a post accusing Democrats of trying to orchestrate a “COUP” to get him out of office, and urged the New York Times to “get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness” in a tweet in which he falsely claimed the publication apologized to him for its coverage of the 2016 campaign.
In other tweets, Trump rewrote history about Bill Clinton’s impeachment, called Morning Joe anchor Joe Scarborough “Dumb and Sick,” and pushed baseless conspiracy theories about Twitter decreasing his follower count by “taking people off list.”