DRAMA! The Justice Department Releases The Carter Page Surveillance Documents,Trump Weighs In

The Justice Department just released the Carter Page (who was a foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign) surveillance documents.

Yep. The FISA application has been made public. Remember the drama with the Nunes memo? #ReleaseTheMemo ring a bell? If you recall, Nunes basically said that the FBI relied too heavily on the anti-Trump Steele dossier to get the FISA warrant. Here’s what we learned from that memo.

Flashback–

• Warrants on Carter Page wouldn’t have been possible without the phony dossier
•  The FBI and DOJ relied on media reporting to lend credibility to the dossier, meaning there was a lot of “circular reporting” in this case
• Christopher Steele said he was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president”
• DOJ and FBI officials KNEW about the shady dossier but excluded it from the FISA applications
• FBI and DOJ officials knew the truth behind the phony dossier and used it anyway

And then remember how Democrats created their OWN memo to combat the Nunes memo?

We had a solid month of memo drama. This is allllll connected.

According to the newly released documents, the FBI “believes Page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the Russian government … to undermine and influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election in violation of U.S. criminal law.”

Page continues to deny the allegations.

“I’m having trouble finding any small bit of this document that rises above complete ignorance and/or insanity,” Page told The Hill on Saturday following the release of the documents.

CNN's @JakeTapper: Is it not a possibility that Russians were trying to recruit you?

Carter Page: "It's totally unreasonable" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/ePqRz0PKXe https://t.co/EAzVfX01DX

— CNN (@CNN) July 22, 2018

Others say the application proves Nunes’ memo right.

Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, said his first read of the documents released by the DOJ on Saturday seemed to “confirm the FBI and DoJ misled the courts in withholding info about Clinton-DNC being behind the info used to get the FISA warrant.”

“Given this corruption, President Trump should intervene and declassify the heavily redacted material,” he continued in a statement.

Of course, President Trump has plenty to say about this.

Congratulations to @JudicialWatch and @TomFitton on being successful in getting the Carter Page FISA documents. As usual they are ridiculously heavily redacted but confirm with little doubt that the Department of “Justice” and FBI misled the courts. Witch Hunt Rigged, a Scam!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2018

Looking more & more like the Trump Campaign for President was illegally being spied upon (surveillance) for the political gain of Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC. Ask her how that worked out – she did better with Crazy Bernie. Republicans must get tough now. An illegal Scam!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2018

Andrew McCarthy – “I said this could never happen. This is so bad that they should be looking at the judges who signed off on this stuff, not just the people who gave it. It is so bad it screams out at you.” On the whole FISA scam which led to the rigged Mueller Witch Hunt!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2018

.@PeteHegseth on @FoxNews “Source #1 was the (Fake) Dossier. Yes, the Dirty Dossier, paid for by Democrats as a hit piece against Trump, and looking for information that could discredit Candidate #1 Trump. Carter Page was just the foot to surveil the Trump campaign…” ILLEGAL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2018

To be continued…

h/t The Hill