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    Trump Misquotes Clapper on FBI ‘Spy’

    by Eugene Kiely May 23, 2018 4 minutes

    In a morning tweetstorm on the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump misquoted James Clapper. Trump claimed the former intelligence director said, “Trump should be happy that the FBI was SPYING on his campaign,” when, in fact, Clapper said the FBI did not spy on his campaign.

    Clapper said that Trump should have been happy to know that the FBI was investigating “what the Russians were doing” to infiltrate his campaign and influence a U.S. presidential election.

    The president in recent days has repeatedly accused the FBI of spying on his campaign in the summer of 2016. He’s referring to   that an undercover FBI intelligence source met with Trump campaign aides in the

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