{"id":320,"date":"2017-03-05T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2017-03-05T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:25:40","slug":"levin-going-bonkers-in-support-of-trumps-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/320","title":{"rendered":"Levin Going Bonkers In Support Of Trump&#8217;s Conspiracy Theory&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Levin, another right-wing nut job is making the case that the Obama administration\u00a0was\u00a0involved in wiretapping candidate Trump. Of course the only reference he makes to evidence supporting the allegation\u00a0is to unnamed right-wing sources. Zero hard-core credible evidence was presented, which\u00a0is typical of right-wing conspiracy nut jobs like Levin.<\/p>\n<p>The one and only thing folks like Levin provide is hilarious comic relief. Figuring out how these delusional half wits come up with their stuff is way too challenging for the average sane person. It is best left to listening, reading, laughing, and then moving on to important\u00a0issues that\u00a0really do warrant our attention. Like improving healthcare, increasing civil liberties, improving educational opportunities for all, formulating strategy to combat anthropogenic climate change, formulating policies that actually disarm and make Islamic terrorism mute, and figuring out how to destroy the practice known as gerrymandering once and for all. That,\u00a0as well as\u00a0\u00a0other undemocratic practices we might discuss at another time.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the hilarity of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Levin\">Levin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">Breitbart<\/a>, <\/strong>fake news and conspiracy theory at its best. Or perhaps I ought to say at its worst.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sunday on Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d while discussing President Donald Trump\u2019s tweets accusing the former Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower before the election, conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin broke down the wiretapping reporting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"EmailOptinM\" class=\"mobile\">\n<div class=\"gform_wrapper\">\n<form action=\"\/newsletter-signup\/\" method=\"post\">\n<div class=\"H\"><input name=\"is_submit_1\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1\" \/><input name=\"gform_submit\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1\" \/>Levin said, \u201cWell, a pleasure to be here. The evidence is overwhelming. This is not about President Trump\u2019s tweeting. This is about the Obama administration spying, and the question is not whether it spied. We know they went to the FISA court twice. The question is who they did spy on and the extent of the spying that is the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, Trump surrogates.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"H\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"H\">Levin then read several news articles about the surveillance.<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2017\/03\/05\/mark-levin-breaks-trump-wiretapping-claims\/\"><strong><em>HERE <\/em><\/strong><\/a>for the video of Levin and his bonkers diatribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Levin, another right-wing nut job is making the case that the Obama administration\u00a0was\u00a0involved in wiretapping candidate Trump. Of course the only reference he makes to evidence supporting the allegation\u00a0is to unnamed right-wing sources. Zero hard-core credible evidence was presented, which\u00a0is typical of right-wing conspiracy nut jobs like Levin. The one and only thing folks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Levin Going Bonkers In Support Of Trump&#8217;s Conspiracy Theory&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-5a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":313,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/313","url_meta":{"origin":320,"position":0},"title":"The President Of The United States Is A Conspiracy Theorist&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"March 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump is, in essence, a conspiracy theory nut job. 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