The NASA moon landings were actually done on a sound stage in Hollywood. The JFK assassination was the work of the CIA. Conspiracy theories just used to belong to the minds of nuts and kooks.
More recently the Democratic Party and their friends in the media had insisted that stories that the Obama administration had spied on the Trump campaign were a product of deranged right-wing conspiracy nuts.
This week in response to Senator Shaheen’s question, “You’re not suggesting that spying occurred?” AG Barr indicated that spying did occur. He carefully indicated that his concerns were over the predicate that was used to initiate such actions. That is, what was the basis for such actions?
As a result of Barr’s statement, it now appears that some members of the Democratic Party want to join the Tin Foil Hat Society. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded Barr retract his statement, accusing Barr of “perpetuating conspiracy theories.”
AG Barr admitted he had no evidence to support his claim that spying on the Trump campaign “did occur.”
AG Barr must retract his statement immediately or produce specific evidence to back it up.
Perpetuating conspiracy theories is beneath the office of the Attorney General.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) April 10, 2019
The problem for Schumer, some conspiracies are not just theories, but are based on facts. As testimonies in Congress and redacted FISA warrants showed, surveillance of the Trump campaign and the Trump administration was going on and had been orchestrated at the highest levels of the Obama administration.
Schumer knows this. Schumer was doing what Democrats do all the time when they are caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They project their own failings on those who might expose them. Schumer is trying to distract the public from seeing reality. That reality is that some members of the prior administration tried to rig the 2016 election.
Perhaps someone should send Senator Schumer a tin foil hat.
