Former Director Of National Intelligence Calls Out Trump's Lies

James Clapper

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has had enough of Donald Trump's lies about the United States' intelligence community:

“He deliberately spun it, distorted it. I mean this is George Orwell — up is down, black is white, peace is war. That’s exactly what I didn’t say. I took aversion to the word spy, it was the most benign version of information gathering. The important thing is the whole reason the FBI was doing this was concern over what the Russians were doing to infiltrate the campaign, not spying on the campaign.” 

Clapper was angry that Trump had twisted what he'd said regarding the FBI investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal. Starting to look like one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. SPYGATE - a terrible thing!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2018