Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Spygate (conspiracy theory)" in English language version.
It remains unclear what, if any, spying was done. The White House has given no evidence to support Trump's claim that the Obama administration was trying to spy on his 2016 campaign for political reasons...No evidence has emerged to show that Obama-era authorities placed an informant inside the Trump campaign.
President Donald Trump has branded his latest attempt to discredit the special counsel's Russia investigation as "spygate," part of a newly invigorated strategy embraced by his Republican colleagues to raise suspicions about the probe that has dogged his presidency since the start.
Trump told one ally this week that he wanted "to brand" the informant a "spy," believing the more nefarious term would resonate more in the media and with the public.
The president repeated an unsubstantiated claim that an FBI informant who contacted advisers to his campaign was a political "spy,"...
President Donald Trump escalated his efforts to discredit the Russia investigation Wednesday, saying the FBI has been caught in a "MAJOR spy scandal" over their use of a secret informant to determine whether some of Mr. Trump's campaign aides were working with Russia ahead of the 2016 election.
Ever the marketing maven, President Trump sought to rebrand this informant with the pejorative label of 'spy,' even going so far as to announce his own freshly minted scandal he would theatrically name 'Spygate.'
Napolitano said that the use of an informant is standard operating procedure in intelligence gathering and in criminal investigations.
As he left the White House Wednesday headed to New York, President Donald Trump kept pounding away at what he's now calling the "SPYGATE" scandal after a Twitter tear on the unsubstantiated allegations earlier in the morning.
Two top Republican allies of President Donald Trump have thrown cold water on his claims that the Obama administration used a spy to infiltrate his 2016 presidential campaign, an unsubstantiated theory he and some conservative allies have dubbed "Spygate."
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Trump has been referring to the FBI's use of an informant as "spygate"...
McConnell has remained the most prominent congressional Republican to defend Mueller and his investigation amid a concerted effort by Trump and conservative supporters to discredit that investigation.
The memo underscores the intensifying partisan debate over special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia. ... The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok.
When Trump says 'witch hunt' and 'SPYgate' and 'Deep State,' he is framing legal institutions and processes as shadowy and illegitimate conspiracies against him, regardless of truth or fact.
Baker emphasized that the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the election did not focus on the Trump campaign officials' interactions with Russia until a 'trusted, reliable foreign partner' sent information to the agency that George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide, was interacting with 'a person who claimed to have email dirt on Hillary Clinton... The important thing to remember...was the case was about Russia.... It was about Russia, period, full stop. That was the focus of the investigation. When the Papadopoulos information comes across our radar screen, it's coming across in the sense that we were always looking at Russia.
Fox News host Shepard Smith on Tuesday dismissed President Trump's unsubstantiated claim that the FBI spied on his campaign using an informant. "President Trump has also claimed the feds spied on his campaign with an informant. The president calls it 'spygate,'" Smith said...
Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a "hot" Fake News story. If true – all time biggest political scandal!
This is also the explanation for Trump's nonstop peddling of nonsensical conspiracy theories to convince his acolytes that he is the victim of a Deep State plot ... In January, Trump claimed that the evidence of the FBI conspiracy was to be found in texts exchanged between two FBI employees ... Onward and downward! Trump's latest conspiracy theory, unveiled last month, is "Spygate"
Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI "SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT." Andrew McCarthy says, "There's probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign." If so, this is bigger than Watergate!
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As he left the White House Wednesday headed to New York, President Donald Trump kept pounding away at what he's now calling the "SPYGATE" scandal after a Twitter tear on the unsubstantiated allegations earlier in the morning.