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 پیش منظر ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201805/1666/1155968404_5788755848001_5788722468001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Trump: 'I did a great service to this country by firing James Comey' 'We’re not undercutting. We’re cleaning everything up,' the president said. 
 
 President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did a "great service to this country" by firing former FBI Director James Comey. 
 
 In comments on the South Lawn, a defiant Trump also defended moves by the White House to force the Justice Department to reveal to lawmakers details about an FBI informant who had contacts with multiple Trump campaign officials. 
 
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 And he denied allegations by Democrats and other critics that his call for a probe into the matter is designed to undermine the ongoing investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia. 
 
 “We’re not undercutting. We’re cleaning everything up,” Trump said. 
 
 He added that he did the United States a favor by ousting Comey, glossing over the idea that his decision to fire the FBI director triggered the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is now investigating whether that ouster amounted to obstruction of justice. 
 
 “What I'm doing is a service to this country. And I did a great service to this country by firing James Comey.” 
 
 
 
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 Trump has challenged the FBI’s use of an informant who made contacts with his campaign aides, and was able to get the Justice Department's inspector general to initiative a review into whether the tactic was politically motivated. 
 
 Trump, who took to Twitter early Wednesday to dub the issue "SPYGATE," on Wednesday said the documents that Republican lawmakers are due to review on Thursday should be revealing. 
 
 “When they look at the documents, I think people are going to see a lot of bad things happened,” Trump said. “I hope it's not so, because if it is, there's never been anything like it in the history of our country.” 
 
 On the former FBI director, Trump said, "I think James Comey's got a lot of problems." 
 
 Comey — who led the agency during the 2016 presidential campaign — defended the use of an informant on Twitter on Wednesday morning. "The FBI’s use of Confidential Human Sources (the actual term) is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country. Attacks on the FBI and lying about its work will do lasting damage to our country," he wrote. ||||| In the face of widening evidence of Trump campaign culpability in the Russia investigation, Republicans have churned through a frequently mutating series of conspiracy theories to defend him. The latest, and possibly final, such theory, involves an informant used by the FBI to report on the campaign’s connections to Russia, whom Trump has promoted to “spy,” or possibly multiple spies. “A lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. If they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country,” Trump told reporters yesterday. “That would be one of the biggest insults that anyone has ever seen.” Trump has mixed his insinuations with dark threats of revenge. “Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State,” he tweeted this morning, “They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before! What goes around, comes around!” 
 
 Trump’s ability to comprehend objective reality is characteristically cracked. But his confidence that the array of forces are shifting to his benefit, and that he may turn the tables on his enemies, has a real basis in reality. He is bringing his party, and the powers it commands, around to his warped manner of thinking. 
 
 The spy theory holds that the FBI, working on orders from the Obama administration, implanted a spy into the Trump campaign in order to help Hillary Clinton’s campaign: 
 
 ...Follow the money! The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported Collusion with Russia, because there was no Collusion. He was only there to spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win - just like they did to Bernie Sanders, who got duped! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018 
 
 This does not explain why the FBI failed to announce either the results of its spying campaign, or even the existence of the investigation, in time to help Clinton win, rather than allowing the probe to remain secret until well after the election. It likewise fails to elaborate on what exactly was done to poor Bernie Sanders. 
 
 Trump’s allies have seized on the procedural offense of the “spy.” The FBI was probing the Trump campaign because the campaign had brought on multiple figures who had suspicious financial or political connections to Russian intelligence — Carter Page (who had been on the FBI’s radar as a potential Russian agent for years), Paul Manafort (who had run a campaign on behalf of Russian interests in Ukraine), and Michael Flynn, among others. The defense has ignored all this evidence of guilt, and instead focused on the question of why Trump was being investigated at all. 
 
 “We can’t recall a similar case, even in the J. Edgar Hoover days, when the FBI decided it needed to snoop on a presidential campaign,” complains The Wall Street Journal editorial page. That this disparity could be explained by the fact that there haven’t been any recent presidential campaigns swarming with criminality is not a possibility the Journal contemplates. 
 
 Instead, Trump’s defenders implicitly assume that the level of covert Russian influence in Trump’s campaign was completely typical, and that the only difference is that Trump was somehow subjected to scrutiny. “For those ok w the FBI spying on the Trump campaign,” reasons Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, “how ok would you have been if in 2008 the FBI decided, because of Bill Ayers and terrorism, they needed to spy on the Obama campaign?” Let’s see. If Bill Ayers was a member of the 2008 Obama campaign, which he was not, and if his Weatherman terrorist cell was still operating, which it also was not, and if there was reason to believe the Weathermen were using Ayers to gain some kind of secret influence over Obama, then, yes, it would have been okay for the FBI to covertly probe his role. (Especially if it took care to keep the probe secret through the election, as the FBI did with its investigation of Trump.) 
 
 But since none of the hypothetical parallels Fleischer suggests are actually valid, then all he is doing is positing the existence of one set of right-wing fever dreams in order to justify another. His comparison between Obama in 2008 and Trump in 2016 actually shows how Republican paranoia inverted reality. Obama, whom the right suspected of harboring dark, secretive un-American influence, was completely loyal, while Trump (for all his blustering nationalism) allowed all sorts of secret hostile foreign influences to take hold. The irrational fear they projected onto Obama has actually come to life, and their response is to demonize the FBI as a nefarious secret police. Republicans today sound, ironically, a lot like Bill Ayers. 
 
 And this, amazingly enough, is the moderate version of the pro-Trump conspiracy. The case revolves around the premise that the FBI had no business snooping on Trump. It follows that any evidence Robert Mueller produces is the fruit of an illegitimate investigation. It is a legal principle much like the exclusionary rule, which requires prosecutors to disregard any evidence the police obtained improperly. 
 
 Trump may be forming an even more radical theory. Gabriel Sherman reports that Trump’s team “is attempting to build the case that anti-Trump forces in the F.B.I. entrapped his advisers using informants to plant evidence about Russian collusion.” Let this roll around in your mind for a moment. Trump is not merely accusing the FBI of planting a spy, but of planting evidence. 
 
 “The president himself is convinced that the secret F.B.I. informant who reportedly met with several Trump campaign advisers in 2016 was not merely an informant, but an Obama political operative,” Sherman reports. “One administration official told me the theory has become so widely accepted that people in the West Wing are paranoid that the F.B.I. has multiple informants working to take down Trump.” 
 
 Planting evidence? Multiple spies? Obama political operatives? You might think this is all so unhinged Trump could not possibly believe it, but then, you would have to explain Trump’s longtime infatuation with the conspiracy theories he imbibes in his binge-watching of Fox News, where hours of air time can pass by without the appearance of anybody who is hinged. And you might also think Trump could not get his party to go along with this theory, to dismiss all the evidence of culpability as having been fabricated by a pro-Obama cabal in the FBI. But then you would be ignoring how far down the Trump rabbit hole the Republican Party has gone so far.
– President Trump is fond of the term "witch hunt" to describe the investigation into possible campaign collusion with the Russians. On Wednesday, he added a new term to the mix: spygate. As in, "SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!" he tweeted, referring to the FBI's use of an informant who made contact with Trump campaign officials. The president also complained about a "Criminal Deep State" that set out to get him but is now mired "in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may have never seen before!" Related developments, including the views of some who think Trump is overstating the facts to deflect from the Robert Mueller investigation: Trump deflecting? The "spygate" tweet shows that Trump is "concocting crazy conspiracy theories" to try to discredit the Mueller investigation as it closes in on him, writes Greg Sargent in the Washington Post. Another critic, Jonathan Chait of New York magazine, runs through the particulars of the spy theory—"that the FBI, working on orders from the Obama administration, implanted a spy into the Trump campaign in order to help Hillary Clinton’s campaign"—and finds it to be "completely insane." Nope, says Trump: In comments to reporters Wednesday, Trump denied that he was trying to undermine Mueller with his new allegations. “We’re not undercutting. We’re cleaning everything up,” Trump said, per Politico.