This morning, during Donald Trump’s “Executive Time,” the man who says he has no time to watch TV because he’s reading “documents” was clearly watching a report on Fox News about a Congressional vote to reauthorize FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
In a kneejerk reaction, Trump let the world know that he doesn’t understand what the law does.
Note – FISA is used for the collection of foreign intelligence against a non-U.S. person overseas.
Moments after Fox’s report aired, Trump shared this tweet:
“House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.” This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2018
The dossier he’s referring to is the series of memos compiled by former MI6 British spy Christopher Steele, a Russian expert, for Fusion GPS.
It’s important to note that, despite the Donald’s protestations, much of it has been corroborated, and none of it has been officially debunked.
In any case, the problem with Trump’s tweet is his administration actually SUPPORTS the reauthorization of the FISA Act.
So, flippity-flop, a short time later, Trump tried to get back on the right side of his own policy:
With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today’s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it! Get smart!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2018
Remember folks, this is a self-proclaimed “very stable genius.”
Trump sent this tweet because someone in the White House finally told him that his previous tweet attacked a bill that he officially supports. Nothing says ‘Very Stable Genius’ like attacking your favored legislation and then…praising it an hour later. https://t.co/iZKgHS5wZw— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 11, 2018
So Fox News gets Trump to reverse an official WH position on pending critical national security legislation then the WH scrambles to get Trump to reverse the reversal an hour later. Stable genius indeed— Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlickstein) January 11, 2018
Trump’s FISA tweets this morning – contradicting his own White House and then shifting back – should alarm everyone. It’s not about the policy which clearly he has not read or understands, it’s about a man who is not mentally fit or well.— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) January 11, 2018
Clean-up on Aisle 702… https://t.co/Fuot317BDq— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) January 11, 2018
