Donald Trump’s insane interview with Fox Business News continues to press the idea that the Obama administration conducted improper surveillance of his campaign:
TRUMP: Well, I'm going to let you figure that one out. But it's so obvious. When you look at Susan Rice and what's going on, and so many people are coming up to me and apologizing now. They're saying you know, you were right when you said that.
Who are these people who are always “coming up to” Trump to tell him how right he is about things? In this case, they don’t seem to be congressmen, senators, intelligence officials, or anyone who has actually looked at the documents that set off the Devin Nunes circular briefing system.
After a review of the same intelligence reports brought to light by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal, multiple sources in both parties tell CNN.
In fact, what the people who have looked at these documents in detail have determined is that, far from having the set-your-hair-on-fire-and-run-screaming import that Nunes implied, they show a White House doing exactly what it should do.
Their private assessment contradicts President Donald Trump's allegations that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice broke the law by requesting the "unmasking" of US individuals' identities. Trump had claimed the matter was a "massive story." ...
One congressional intelligence source described the requests made by Rice as "normal and appropriate" for officials who serve in that role to the president.
Trump’s level of hyping the documents might seem hard to top.
"I think it's going to be the biggest story," Trump said. "It's such an important story for our country and the world." He also called it "truly one of the big stories of our time."
But it’s barely a patch on how White House Nazi-sympathizer third-class, Sebastian Gorka, paints Rice’s actions.
Sebastian Gorka, a Trump foreign policy aide, cast Rice's actions as worse than the Watergate scandal that felled President Richard Nixon in an interview with pro-Trump Fox News host Sean Hannity.
"Losing 14 minutes of audiotape in comparison to this is a little spat in the sandbox in the kindergarten," Gorka said.
After raising these massive expectations, what do Nunes, Trump, and Gorka have to show in terms of actual things that Rice did wrong?
Nothing.
Another source said there's "absolutely" no smoking gun in the reports, urging the White House to declassify them to make clear there was nothing alarming in the documents.