Perhaps it would be worthwhile for Congress to investigate whether or not Trump’s phones were tapped before he took office. Former National Security advisor James Clapper denied any existence of FISA application or any knowledge of the FBI requesting one in an interview with Meet the Press. That didn’t seem to matter to high ranking Republicans like Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton who left the door open to an undiscovered application. After a series of denials for any further investigations into Trump’s election campaign ties to Russia besides the clandestine ones already being conducted by government agencies and congressional intelligence committees, an open inquiry could allow a compelling argument to emerge for Trump to be investigated openly.
Maybe it would reveal that Trump’s phones were tapped, as most conversations with Russian diplomats are. It would make Trump partially right that somebody was listening into his phone calls, but the reason wouldn’t be for political sabotage or anything nefarious like that. It would simply prove that Trump and his affiliates mingled with people that are A) already under investigation by the intelligence community because B) they are not trustworthy diplomats.
Many have chalked up this Twitter rant as a distraction from the scandalous week Trump just had, including revelations about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ undisclosed meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. These meetings and others recently reported have shorted any sense of progress Trump had gained after his joint sessions speech on Tuesday night. Still the Trump administration continues to push for an investigation by Congress, so we might find something valuable in this distraction.
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