[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by whell

https://nypost.com/2018/05/19/cambri...rump-campaign/

So, the FBI and Justice planted an informant in the Trump campaign. That informant then planted the "hacked emails" story with Papadopoulos.

The revelation, stemming from recent reports in which FBI sources admitted sending an agent to snoop on the Trump camp, heightens suspicions that the FBI was seeking to entrap Trump campaign aides. Papodopoulous has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, while Page was the subject of a federal surveillance warrant.

Days later, Halper contacted Papadopoulos by e-mail. The professor offered the young and inexperienced campaign aide $3,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to London, ostensibly to write a paper about energy in the eastern Mediterranean region.

“George, you know about hacking the e-mails from Russia, right?” the professor pressed Papadopoulos when they met, according to reports — a reference to Trump’s campaign-trail riffs about Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server.

Wouldn't be surprised to learn that this plant's info was coupled with the Hillary purchased Steel "dossier" to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter Page.

And, of course, Obama and company were at the center of this abuse of power:

The Halper revelation also shows the Obama administration’s FBI began prying into the opposing party’s presidential nominee earlier than it previously admitted.

Halper’s sit-downs with Page reportedly started in early July 2016, undermining fired FBI Director James Comey’s previous claim that the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign began at the end of that month.

And they compensated Halper generously for his services:

It is not clear if the professor was paid to speak with Trump campaign figures, but public records show that he has received large payments from the federal government in the last two years.

The Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment — a shadowy think tank that reports directly to the secretary of defense — paid Halper $282,000 in 2016 and $129,000 in 2017.

...and it looks like the FBI/Justice turned to someone who may have had some experience spying on presidential campaigns:

When Bush became Ronald Reagan’s running mate, Halper was implicated in a spying scandal in which CIA officials gave inside information on the Carter administration to the GOP campaign.

You guys still want to defend this Russian conspiracy BS?

THIS is conspiracy BS.