A/V surveillance technology today is far more advanced than what they show in the movies, and unless you have access to a tech person who is on top of it, some of what's out there simply can't be found.

As far as news reports go that Trump Tower was never tapped, who is going to tell the media that it was?

The Bureau, tapping a p**********l candidate without a FISA warrant? I doubt those involved would commit occupational suicide or worse by telling the media about it.

The CIA? Not only operating, against their charter, domestically, but spying on a p**********l candidate? That's one agency whose people definitely won't 'fess up to something like that.

The bit about their having suspicions about Trump "colluding" with the Russians prior to Steele's and Fusion GPS' involvement did not come about, contrary to what was posted above, independently of the Obama Administration.

Obama and Hillary were the originators of all of it. Whether our "reasonable, impartial, just happens to conclude in every instance that the Democrats are pure of heart and Trump is the epitome of evil" friend comes up with thirty seven "unimpeachable" news stories or not, the corruption and skullduggery that took place under Obama, which included the weaponization of the Bureau, the Agency and the IRS are fact.

Some of this I get from my own media research, available to anyone and which we've all no doubt seen, some of it from a couple of federal types I know professionally, our conversations on the topic concluding, essentially, in "don't tell anyone you got it from me."

Whether Mr. Centrist-Whose-Conclusions-Always-Find-Trump-To-Be-Wrong wants to acknowledge the t***h or stay with the portside line is immaterial, a juncture has been reached in American affairs at which we were at the brink of having Obama's fundamental change alter our future indelibly (there was a lot of g*******t money involved in getting good old "Barry" into the Oval Office), and a Hillary Clinton presidency was needed to finish what Obama began. Obama's motivation was equal parts political dogma and money, Hillary's was a mixture of money and power.

The MSM, no longer much more than political shills for the left, studiously avoided reporting on Hillary's pay-to-play antics as SecState and ignored anything that might have told the t***h about the corrupt, essentially anti-America nature of the Obama Administration and the various ethics-based discrepancies within, but it was the single most corrupt and s*******s administration in U.S. history, and the media, who would have piled on a Republican administration (remember Watergate?) for far less, emulated the three chimps (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil).

What it all boils down to is that for individuals who backed Obama/Clinton, it was a high stakes game with a lot to lose, given the groundwork completed under Obama (the polarization of the citizenry, the chaos Obama and minions had created, through villification of police and identity politics in the inner cities, the complete control-by-corruption of our federal law and tax enforcement arms and our intelligence agencies, etc). A Trump presidency was the only thing that stood between winning or losing their end game.

The attacks on Trump were multiple, from the Russia Collusion to branding him a r****t, an opportunist using the White House for later personal gain, several kinds of 'phobe, "for the rich," and it was all lies, delivered with the help of an irresponsible media.

Trump's intentions, unlike those of many career politicians, are actually driven by patriotism and the will to get America back on track. His ego (no one ever accused him of being modest) works in our favor because he is self motivated to win, to have a legacy that goes down as great in the history books.

Unlike Obama, Trump is straight up -- he has nothing to hide about his agendas, tells us what he's doing and why and doesn't mince words.

The media h**es the fact that he talks to the public more via Twitter than via them, because they actually believe that they hold some sort of relevance after proving that they can't be trusted to deliver unbiased, accurate reports.

We rarely see Sarah Huckabee Sanders doing press briefings any more because they're a waste of time, just a crowd of smirking liars firing questions geared towards biased and misleading "reports" containing heavily edited, cherry picked, anti-Trump "information."

For anyone who's dealt in investigation and report writing on any serious level, literally ferreting out facts and inconsistencies, it's a slam dunk that Trump is the good guy in the quagmire of today's politics.

Sometimes a "pause" in seriousness is needed my friend from the north who resides in the far-east.

CSM does show some signs of having common sense, but on the other hand claims to not delve into the "alt-left" and calls things he doesn't agree with "conspiracy theories" which both the left and right use to discredit information or at least cast doubt on something.

CSM may want to pay attention to the "alt-left" for they seem to be gaining a stronghold in the Dem party.

Many folks haven't heard the term "justice Democrats".
They are real and are now picking off established Dems and inserting their puppets.

Now I'm not a big youtube guy unless it's a parrot playing the piano vid, but a friend sent this eye-opener to me yesterday and no matter where one stands politically, this should be watched.

In case you wonder how a bartender like AOC can become a congresswoman just watch this:

The Brains Behind AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU&feature=share

I subscribed to Politico and its stepchild, AXIOS, for several months, reading both daily including their supplements. I quit both when I'd seen enough evidence that they are both skewed, Politico albeit more subtly, to the left.

Occasionally I visit one or the other to see their take on certain news items, but they're not longer parts of my steady diet.

As far as the politicos you refer to are concerned, once it becomes a career for them most of their credibility goes out the window.

President Trump, however, is not a career politico, which gives him a distinct edge in that department.