larry johnson

President Trump tweeted that former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has

accused the United Kingdom's intelligence agencies of "helping [the]

Obama Administration Spy on the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign." Trump

was apparently tweeting in response to a segment he <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bb0fb327b528c545d0aae6c269c763ada4d3de189df3ea8261d6a1e72e61df74d38317a0533a107f4360e75e5505689a8" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="watched">watched</a> on One America News Network, a far right news channel that traffics in conspiracy theories.</span></span><p style="margin-bottom:1em;">

<font color="#4c5157"><span style="font-size:17px;">The <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bd69ccdd8c72c1ab6cb5fa4e02b01feff2d33e006d05ac7e012b6b7eb4b1111c19617c9d2c9a3d2c66f6f725e57f8d1db" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a> that Trump resurfaced this week helped cause an <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b7104249e40f8bae3b0bfb76ababe023bb2a94415167f2bff6d125f11b2fdd32c80801a5607d8fbb3181e6af2f32c0c25" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title=" international incident">international incident</a> between the United States and the United Kingdom in 2017.</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:17px;">

<span style="font-size:17px;"><span style="color:#4c5157;">Larry Johnson is a conservative conspiracy theorist notorious for <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b2138ba1312dfe6e62e3bf12bdc872a6bed51cd6f53e79c25b3fcbf19864ec9d525b2e5d3f69c42389eac39f12a748667" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="pushing racist smears ">pushing racist smears</a> about former first lady Michelle Obama. In 2017, Johnson <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b9532f2e4a3afb86023d84abe08166cbd5c489f83dd25bcaca2ed7218bacd454252a90732c6cd68a2bdd6d6edc75a2adb" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="argued">argued</a>

that "there was some collusion overseas" between U.S. intelligence and a

U.K. security agency, and that British intelligence fed information

about Trump to Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan. None of these

allegations are true.</span>

</span>

<span style="font-size:17px;"><span style="color:#4c5157;">Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano shared the theory on <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b22f57f29c871de67d8a5fb5a1827ffaebf69eeb879dffd1e829cf401a93625f10558745071083b4287d756d75de606b7" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="two Fox News shows">two Fox News shows</a> in 2017. Then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bcee0a895086d3813b6a98414942e8a20cf47afff1e9e20b4922efbb762336506230e040b67041c4576e9d36167e22890" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="cited Napolitano's conspiracy theory">cited Napolitano's conspiracy theory</a>

in a press briefing, suggesting that one of the United States'

strongest allies was illegally spying on Trump on behalf of

then-President Barack Obama.</span></span><

<span style="font-size:17px;"><span style="color:#4c5157;">After <i>The New York Times</i> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b452e6c1113d62ae3b66420a49fbf10de57ab223116427ec3b3d02c543010e1809be6fcbaafdbacd8a513da078583fc2e" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="confirmed">confirmed</a> <i>Media Matters'</i> discovery that Johnson was one of Napolitano's sources for the conspiracy theory, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b01b8588b8af511141d80507b01734c1deacb39f2131e1294f8fe447a7d01cd51c177d939068bcd2f12e563dae0e5aa20" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="Fox News suspended Napolitano">Fox News suspended Napolitano</a> "indefinitely," which turned out to be

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b671dfa592c1b2c47d35e6e8a537f03f11dc347a766ab70f45f2b89b0c1b0b9779396792df4124b0fcf57426ed16c1a04" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="about two weeks">about two weeks

</a>. President Trump ducked all responsibility, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bfd4562037a54cbdeef1f6be2f45435770d08fe2da34927c49fae8535a0740f8b6ce501f453cdbf8148875c73b33b4bca" style="color:#1976d2;text-decoration:underline;" title="blaming Fox News">blaming Fox News</a>.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:17px;">

<span style="font-size:17px;"><span style="color:#4c5157;">Now, two

years later, the president is pushing the same conspiracy theory that

previously damaged the U.S.-U.K. alliance, and which the British

government has recently denounced as <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b2f2a56025a401e86f7fa2d63f832c373756fcb085adb293a938265d8f1bd77030bc2468cb0f1fe5a6aa234ae5dc4a3be" style="color:#1976D2;text-decoration:underline;" title=""utterly ridiculous." ">"utterly ridiculous."</a></span></span></p></div><div>===
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