President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated the claim that UK’s intelligence service conspired with former President Barack Obama spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign, saying he can’t wait until ‘the truth comes out.’
“Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson accuses United Kingdom Intelligence of helping Obama Administration Spy on the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign.” @OANN WOW! It is now just a question of time before the truth comes out, and when it does, it will be a beauty!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2019
President Trump cited former CIA analyst Larry Johnson’s interview with One American News Network. See the interview below.
During the interview, Johnson points out that Evelyn Farkas, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration, admitted to the spying on MSNBC after being asked to respond to a New York Times report claiming the Obama admin had scurried to preserve intelligence related to Trump’s possible ties to Russia in the last days of Obama’s presidency.
“American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump,” the Times reported. “Separately, American intelligence agencies had intercepted communications of Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates.”
Farkas told “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski that it would not surprise her if that were the case. She said she had been “urging” her former colleagues “to get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration.”
“I had a fear that the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about … the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence,” Farkas said.
Johnson isn’t the first to make this claim. Fox News Senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano was suspended for making the same allegation.
Napolitano has reportedly been suspended indefinitely, after the controversy surrounding his unsubstantiated claim that President Barack Obama colluded with British intelligence to spy on Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election.
Napolitano, who appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday, was scrutinized when he claimed that intelligence sources he spoke to alleged Obama “went outside the chain of command” and had requested that British officials spy on Trump.
“They have 24/7 access to the NSA database,” Napolitano claimed on the show. “So by simply having two people go to them saying, ‘President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations involving president-elect Trump,’ he’s able to get it, and there’s no American fingerprints on this.”
That claim has since been rejected by British intelligence agency Global Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) — as well as other Fox News hosts, including Bill O’Reilly, and Shepard Smith. Napolitano’s claims have also been debunked by the US intelligence community.
“Fox News cannot confirm Judge [Andrew] Napolitano’s commentary,” Smith said on Friday. “Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that the now-president of the United States was surveilled at any time, in any way. Full stop.”
Source: Business Insider, Business Insider
