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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-snitches-rats-1395609/Donald Trump is worried he may have a rat or multiple rats in his midst. Hes wondering if his phones are tapped, or even if one of his buddies could be wearing a wire.
As the federal and state investigations into Trump and his orbit swell, so have the former presidents suspicions, according to two sources familiar with the matter and another two people close to the twice-impeached former Oval Office occupant.
This summer, Trump has asked close associates if they think his communications are being monitored by the feds, or per his phrasing by Biden. As a source close to Trump describes it to Rolling Stone: He has asked me and others, Do you think our phones are tapped? Given the sheer volume of investigations going on into the [former] president, I do not think hes assuming anything is outside the realm of possibility.
The source adds, Hes talked about this seriously [in the past few months], but I know of one time when he made a joke that was something like, Be careful what you say on the phone!
Moreover, on at least a couple occasions since May, the former president has wondered aloud if there were any Republicans visiting his clubs who could be wearing a wire, according to another person close to Trump and a different source familiar with the matter. Trump and his allies are baselessly floating the idea that federal agents could be guilty of planting incriminating evidence at his private resort. And the ex-president and several of his longtime advisers are trying to figure out if they have, in their terminology, a mole or a rat in Trumps inner sanctum who is slipping his secrets to the feds...
As the federal and state investigations into Trump and his orbit swell, so have the former presidents suspicions, according to two sources familiar with the matter and another two people close to the twice-impeached former Oval Office occupant.
This summer, Trump has asked close associates if they think his communications are being monitored by the feds, or per his phrasing by Biden. As a source close to Trump describes it to Rolling Stone: He has asked me and others, Do you think our phones are tapped? Given the sheer volume of investigations going on into the [former] president, I do not think hes assuming anything is outside the realm of possibility.
The source adds, Hes talked about this seriously [in the past few months], but I know of one time when he made a joke that was something like, Be careful what you say on the phone!
Moreover, on at least a couple occasions since May, the former president has wondered aloud if there were any Republicans visiting his clubs who could be wearing a wire, according to another person close to Trump and a different source familiar with the matter. Trump and his allies are baselessly floating the idea that federal agents could be guilty of planting incriminating evidence at his private resort. And the ex-president and several of his longtime advisers are trying to figure out if they have, in their terminology, a mole or a rat in Trumps inner sanctum who is slipping his secrets to the feds...
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Pointing Fingers and Looking for Rats in MAGA World (Original Post)
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Aug 2022
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Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)1. Paranoia...
The Destroyer
Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)2. This is so ironic,
because in the end, Trump himself will flip on everyone around him, including his kids, to save his own ass.
Meadowoak
(5,559 posts)3. Surprise Donald, they're all rats! You are so fucked.
crickets
(25,983 posts)4. This is the man who thought
Obama had wiretapped him during the campaign and left "microwaves that could turn into cameras" to spy on him in the WH. tfg is just paranoid as hell.
Gee, I wonder why?
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)5. "The Paranoids are out to get me!"
I hope his anxiety gets the best of him.
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)6. Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep...
It starts when you're always afraid.
Step outta line the man comes and takes you away.