THE GROWING CONCERN – AT 10:29 A.M. ET:  Even some Trump haters are dismayed at the reports that Trump Tower may well have been wiretapped by federal officials.  The information leaked out just as the president was making what many of us believe was a triumphant speech at the UN.  From the Great Michael Goodwin at the New York Post:

Yet even as Trump spoke, a threat to his presidency gained new steam. Reports that special counsel Robert Mueller had wiretapped former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort and plans to indict him sent Washington into a new tizzy of speculation.

According to CNN, which first carried the wiretapping report, Manafort was surveilled under a FISA warrant, meaning the FBI suspected he was operating as a foreign agent. The network said it is possible G-men listened to the president talking to Manafort because the wiretap continued into this year and Trump and Manafort often talked in 2017.

If so, that would mark an infamous history — an American president being overheard by secret agents of his own government.

It would also be additional support for Trump’s charge that former President Barack Obama “had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.”

It was in March when Trump made that explosive claim, and the Democratic media rushed to denounce him even before Obama did. Subsequent denials from then-FBI boss James Comey and other Obama aides all were rock-solid in declaring that no such thing had happened. There was no wiggle room in their denials, some of which were made under oath before Congress.

But something certainly happened. And what if it was the worst imaginable something? What if the Republican candidate for president was put under surveillance by a Democratic administration that was trying to elect another Democrat?

COMMENT:  This is a grave matter, and one calling for the immediate attention of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The real story may not be any collusion between Trump people and Russia, a charge utterly unproved at this point, but Obama administration spying on a presidential campaign.  Mr. Sessions, what do you say?

September 20, 2017