President Donald Trump is demanding his Justice Department examine whether his 2016 presidential campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled' by the FBI or the department, he announced on Sunday, and to see if President Obama was behind it.

The president has charged Obama was behind an effort to spy on his campaign to help Hillary Clinton win the election.

Trump answered that in his tweet on Sunday, saying he would demand they do just that.

"I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!" he wrote.

An American academic who met with the President's advisers in 2016 could have been an FBI informant for its probe into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russian, reports suggest.

Both the Times and Washington Post have reported that the FBI made use of a US-born academic working in the UK as an informant, and that he met with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, two Trump aides suspected of dealing with the Russians.

This came after the Daily Caller reported that both Page and Papadopoulos met in 2016 with an American professor at Cambridge University, which it named as Stefan Halper. He asked several questions about Russia which prompted suspicions.

Following the reports and naming of the professor, Trump tweeted: 'If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal.

'Only the release or review of documents that the House Intelligence Committee (also, Senate Judiciary) is asking for can give the conclusive answers. Drain the Swamp!'



Stefan Halper is a Cambridge Academic and has been named in several reports as an FBI informant on the Trump campaign. He is pictured in an undated image speaking at the Oxford Union debating society.

Papadopoulos revealed in a plea agreement to having been told by an apparent Russian agent that the Putin government had access to a raft of hacked Hillary Clinton emails before this was made public. He has since pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

Page, meanwhile, was under surveillance by the FBI at the time he met with Professor Halper, who had links to both the CIA and MI6.

Papadopoulos first met Halper after the academic invited him to England in September 2016 to discuss energy issues, two sources familiar with his account told NBC News.

The Trump aide found Halper's behavior during these meetings suspicious, the sources said, and also noticed that the academic’s young assistant appeared to flirt with him both during and after the exchanges.

Papadopoulos said Halper, who is now retired, randomly brought up Russians and Clinton's emails, adding to his suspicions.

Page told the Daily Caller he met with Halper several times, including on the academic's farm in Virginia. However, Page told NBC he did not find these encounters concerning.

Halper also met with a third Trump campaign official, to whom he reportedly expressed interest in helping the president's campaign.

There is no public evidence that Halper was an FBI informant, and official sources have refused to comment on the subject. Halper has not given any comment on the issue.



George Papadopoulos was one of three Trump aides that met with Professor Halper during 2016.

The academic has long-established connections to both British and American intelligence services.

He worked closely with former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove at the Cambridge Security Initiative, an intelligence consulting group.

Meanwhile, his father-in-law was Ray Cline, who served as director of the CIA's bureau of intelligence and research. Halper also worked with a team of former CIA officials on George H.W. Bush's failed presidential bid.

Allegations that the FBI planted an informant in the Trump campaign have angered the President.

In a series of late night calls to allies, including Meadows and Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, Trump has used the reports as evidence that the so-called deep state of career government officials has been working against him.

The President thrust the issue into the limelight with a tweet on Friday.

He quoted Fox News anchor David Asman, who said: 'Apparently the DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign. This has never been done before and [is not] by any means necessary, they are out to frame Donald Trump for crimes he didn't commit'.

Trump has frequently fumed about the Russia probe even while in White House meetings this week about other topics, according to a White House official.

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Makes watergate look like a parking ticket.  Problem is too many Obama people are still in DOJ.

This is gonna he ugly for the previous administration.

I predict a rash of suicides and mysterious deaths...

Can they simply refuse?

"can they"

This is EXACTLY what they will do.  But it's on now!

In before Sessions and company recuse themselves.

One would assume disobeying an order would be grounds for you're fired!  Then the media will go apeshit. Is best timeline.

gee, the Nixon adm. has a bunch of amateurs break into the DNC and it's a Constitutional Crisis, but when the DNC, Justice, the FBI, CIA, NSA, the Obama adm., and their minions the media all fall into line to bring down a campaign, spy on said campaign and attempt to have Trump impeached it's all good. To say nothing about the supposed fact that Trump is whining about how he's being treated and that he must be guilty of something because he wants it all to end after two years.

Good, if true, that shit undermines our entire political process at the least.

What’s truly disturbing is that to the culture within these organizations, this shit is ok.

Nothing will happen as the swamps to deep.
There is no one to investigate it.
DT screwed up when he didn't clean house when he took over.
This will be another "We investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong" signed Never Trump at the DOJ.

Works if he's willing to use that big of a hammer. The continued employment of Mr Magoo and Hot Rod Rosenfail suggests the will isn't there.

On the other hand, if he starts canning people, Attorney General Nolocontendere has a nice sound to it

I thought he was doing this since Day 1.

Hell it was a founding tenet of the FBI ad CIA. They grew in power because they had dirt on everyone and used it to leverage more power and bigger budgets.

This is nothing new. What is new is now we know in real time what would come out 10 years after the fact when the big five had a monopoly on what the public had access too.

This guy is all hot air I’m afraid as he’s had all kinds of time to drain the FBI/DoJ swamp and yet here we still are with nobody in jail least of all HRC and Clinton foundation. I am disapoint.

Wow.  Trump be the Man.

It has been a year and there have been a massive amount of reps that have stepped down as well as people fired.  The swamp is REAL and not any sort of conspiracy, and the swamp is massive.

So, the DOJ is going to investigate itself.

Should I hold my breath now or much, much later?

Awesome!

In before the under_score butthurt

Because Trump included the words "for Political Purposes" they don't have to refuse.  They can answer "No" and be done with it.

Trump needs to have left that out because the FBI can lawfully answer "No" by claiming it was for national security purposes, even if the spying was used for a political purposes.

And Sessions will do.......nothing.

This entire thing has spun out of anyone's control.  Public is growing wary of these type of accusations.

Trump better put up or shut up.  Too much empty talk for too long.

why expect anything else from a swamp critter? if you have any doubt that he is one just harken back to what the senate told Trump if Sessions got fired.

IG is not playing along.

Freedom caucus is stepping up.

Never say never.

Sessions is Trump's biggest mistake. It would have looked very bad to fire him after it was evident. So, things have to take a different course.

I was listening to the radio last night and the commie host was all breathless about how ridiculous this is and Trump is an idiot. They're scared. I laughed, sent an email to the station that I won't ever listen to their shit again, and went to bed.

Sessions won’t do anything and if he does it will just be another wash over.

In on one

If Sessions drags his feet on this request from POTUS, it is the perfect reason to fire the worthless piece of shit.

I can hear the shredders in FBI/DOJ working overtime.  I hope people get their souls buttfucked and their shit pushed in.

It's a trap!!

For the DOJ. Trump knows they are dirty so he orders them to investigate. Either they implicate themselves or they blatantly deny. If they do deny then Trump pulls out the proof and poof, they are gone.

If only he had been as concerned about foreign governments infiltrating his campaign despite the FBI warning him they would try to do so.

Here, I put together a list of possible outcomes for you all.

1. Nothing

Anyone who thinks otherwise is fucking delusional

"If that bastard wins, we'll all hang"

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USSS needs to seize control of the building. At least this gives Trump a valid reason to start a purge of the DOJ.

Do you all finally believe it’s happening now?

Yep this is a National emergency now.

Remember during the election when the media and everyone was asking why Trump played Rolling Stones songs at his rallies? Even after the band members bitched about him using their music he kept playing the songs, especially you can't always get what you want. Now it has come out that they named the operation they used to spy on Trump's campaign after a Rolling Stones song. Now it all makes sense. He knew and wanted them to know that he knew.

Trump has been playing the long game for some time. I can't wait to see his final move.

Every Obama-appointed SES, throughout government but especially in Justice, needs to find his key card not working tomorrow morning, regardless of whether a replacement has even been named or not.

This shit is supposedly why Justice has an OIG. If domestic spying on political opponents isn't "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse," I don't know what is.

Exactly, all sorts of shit has came out about the Democrats, FBI, Hillary, Clinton Foundation, USDOJ and not a fucking thing has been done.  No evidence about Trump "colluding" with Russia and there has been a multi-million dollar investigation with a special counsel.  Yep, the public is growing wary of a corrupt government.

there was no foreign government infiltrating his campaign.

there were obama agents infiltrating his campaign to destroy it.

you want to have a love sandwich with mueller and comey, two fucking giant swamp dwelling liars and bitch about trump?

whether your pathetic delusions bring you happiness or sadness I don't know, and don't care.

but they are fucking HILARIOUS

In on won

If only Hillary would have ran a better campaign, then your girl would be president.

In.

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Protip:

Worry more about the traitors inside the castle walls than outside.

Imagine having the entire media complex, the entire academic world, hollywood and television and THE ENTIRE POWER OF THE US GOVERNMENT trying to get you to win and you still lose.

What a fucking shitty candidate.  And top secret still moans secretly each night wishing she had won so Comey and Mueller would have the time to come over and make him into a "real man"

Very good, hope they fall.