THE WEIRDNESS MARCHES ON – AT 8:51 P.M. ET:  Former President Obama has sorta, kinda, maybe denied the current president's charge that Obama wiretapped him.  The wording of the denial reflects the true art of the machine politician.  From Breitbart: 

A number of ex-Obama officials appear to suggest that the Obama administration may have actually wiretapped the Trump campaign, but that if they did it would have been justified by a court and part of an investigation by the Justice Department—not led by or ordered from the White House or the former president himself.

On Saturday, former President Obama’s spokesman Kevin Lewis denied that the former White House or the former President himself would have given such an order to wiretap Trump Tower—or any other type of surveillance in any case—but that such an order would have come from an “independent investigation led by the Department of Justice.”

“A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” Lewis said. “As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”

Lewis’ statement on the former president’s behalf came in response to the explosive charges from President Donald Trump, who tweeted on Saturday morning that the Obama team conducted surveillance on Trump Tower during the campaign and afterward...

...Interestingly, however, a number of other former Obama administration officials do not deny that such a wiretap existed. They just deny that the White House or Obama himself would have approved it or ordered it, and say that the Department of Justice would have sought it in consultation with a foreign intelligence surveillance, or FISA, court.

Obama’s former speechwriter Jon Favreau tweeted that he would warn reporters against saying there was no wiretap.

COMMENT:  Oh please.  Does anyone reading this believe that Obama's attorney-general, Loretta Lynch, would have approved the wiretapping of a presidential nominee without running it by Obama?  Given the politicization of the Justice Department under Obama, it's highly unlikely.

This is just beginning.  Lindsey Graham, who heads a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said this morning that he wants to get to the bottom of things.  I'm sensing that we may be in for a new edition of the Watergate committee, or the Army-McCarthy hearings. 

Lots of fun.

This could be Trump's revenge.

March 4,  2017