There’s no reason to ignore the mounting evidence that Obama administration officials were corrupt in their handling of the Trump–Russia investigation.
Those sharing #Obamagate hashtags on Twitter would do best to avoid the hysterics we saw from Russian-collusion believers, but they have no reason to ignore the mounting evidence that suggests the Obama administration engaged in serious corruption.
Democrats and their allies, who like to pretend that President Obama’s only scandalous act was wearing a tan suit, are going spend the next few months gaslighting the public by focusing on the most feverish accusations against Obama. But the fact is that we already have more compelling evidence that the Obama administration engaged in misconduct than we ever did for opening the Russian-collusion investigation.
It is not conspiracy-mongering to note that the investigation into Trump was predicated on an opposition-research document filled with fabulism and, most likely, Russian disinformation. We know the DOJ withheld contradictory evidence when it began spying on those in Trump’s orbit. We have proof that many of the relevant FISA-warrant applications — almost every one of them, actually — were based on “fabricated” evidence or riddled with errors. We know that members of the Obama administration, who had no genuine role in counterintelligence operations, repeatedly unmasked Trump’s allies. And we now know that, despite a dearth of evidence, the FBI railroaded Michael Flynn into a guilty plea so it could keep the investigation going.
What’s more, the larger context only makes all of these facts more damning. By 2016, the Obama administration’s intelligence community had normalized domestic spying. Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, famously lied about snooping on American citizens to Congress. His CIA director, John Brennan, oversaw an agency that felt comfortable spying on the Senate, with at least five of his underlings breaking into congressional computer files. His attorney general, Eric Holder, invoked the Espionage Act to spy on a Fox News journalist, shopping his case to three judges until he found one who let him name the reporter as a co-conspirator. The Obama administration also spied on Associated Press reporters, which the news organization called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.” And though it’s been long forgotten, Obama officials were caught monitoring the conversations of members of Congress who opposed the Iran nuclear deal.
What makes anyone believe these people wouldn’t create a pretext to spy on the opposition party? If anyone does, they shouldn’t, because on top of everything else, we know that Barack Obama was keenly interested in the Russian-collusion investigation’s progress.
In her very last hour in office, national-security adviser Susan Rice wrote a self-preserving email to herself, noting that she’d attended a meeting with the president, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI director James Comey, and Vice President Joe Biden in which Obama stressed that everything in the investigation should proceed “by the book.”
Did high-ranking Obama administration officials not always conduct such investigations “by the book”? It is curious that they would need to be specifically instructed to do so. It is also curious that the outgoing national-security adviser would need to mention this meeting hours before Trump became president.
None of this means that Obama committed some specific crime; he almost assuredly did not. In a healthy media environment, though, the mounting evidence of wrongdoing would spark an outpouring of journalistic curiosity.
“But,” you might ask, “Why does it matter, anymore?” Well, for one thing, many of the same characters central to all this apparent malfeasance now want to retake power in Washington. Biden is the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, he’s running as the heir to Obama’s legacy, and he was at that meeting with Rice. He had denied even knowing anything about the FBI investigation into Flynn before being forced to correct himself after ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pointed out that he was mentioned in Rice’s email. It’s completely legitimate to wonder what he knew about the investigation.
Skeptics like to point out that the Obama administration had no motive to engage in abuse, because Democrats were sure they were going to win. Richard Nixon won 49 states in 1972. His cronies had no need to break in to the DNC’s offices and touch off Watergate. But as the FBI agents involved in the case noted, they wanted to have an “insurance policy” if the unthinkable happened.
In 2016, the unthinkable did happen, and we’re still dealing with the fallout four years later. We don’t know where this scandal will end up, but one doesn’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to wonder.
You’re no more honest than the “liberal media” you hate. If you’re not any more capable of honest, unbiased, reporting then you should join Faux News (Fox) so that you’re lack of ethics is more easily discernable.
Sounds like you don’t like wearing the shoe of a disgraceful Obama administration. We do hate the liberal media because they live fabricating lies on a daily basis.
Ok Leftist bot, clearyyou aren’t keeping up with even your lamestream news media bc every item listed above has been factually proven. Even MSM is going along with these points. So other then trying to sow discord & disinformation. I’m not sure what your point is.
Obama committed no crime, are you serious??
isnt it interesting that all these news medias, emails always talk talk talk talk talk talk
about all the illegal stuff the queer illegal muslim obama did and still does, and the whinnie liberal democratic part and some republicans… talk talk talk
no one gets results…… im getting kind of tired of hearing about the bull shit if you cant prosecute
or get them put in jail, then quit sending the crap.
Obama Gate is Watergate 100X worse, see Lt Gen Flynn, Rodger Stone, George P & others to try to take down Pres Trump. Other names for issue
DemGate
DC Gate ( involves all DC types who voted for Hillary then)
EstdGate: DC, Hollywood.
Nothing will happen to anyone until we have VIGILANTE justice!
???????????? Obama my mama. He was and still is a curse on this planet. Just an imposter. A celebrity wannabe.
Obama was a one man splinter cell. Now he is a one man idiot-stick.
I remain convinced that the number two man at the DOJ was the worst of the lot!
You’re Never Allowed to Question a “President” that is: Communist, Muslim, Possibly Foreign Born, a Member of The Muslim Brotherhood, Is Racist, Hates Whites, Hates Christians, Hates Gun Owners, Hates America, Committed Treason Against The US, Stole Billions for Himself & Iran, Spied on the American People, Enemies, Government Officials & Donald Trump. This Satanic Freak has NO Birth Certificate, No SSI #, No Evidence of Ever Being Anywhere – But Hey to Brain Dead Liberal Fucks – He’s The Messiah – Of HELL.
You nailed it !
Thank God the truth is starting to come out.
Thank You!
The facts are the same, NO ONE does anything to anyone on the LEFT. No matter what they do or did.
I still haven’t seen or heard of a legitimate valid USA birth certificate for Barack H. Obama Jr.
We have seen what appears to be a legitimate valid Kenyan birth certificate for BHO Jr.
Kenya also proudly displays BHO Jr.’s BIRTHPLACE IN KENYA.
BHO Jr. also used another man’s Social Security ID. I’ve been told by Social Security that is
FEDERAL FELONY.
To anti-American democrats and their fellow travelers those are not SCANDALOUS.
He was identified by several posts and publications as a FOREIGN STUDENT not a USA citizen.
George
For the past three years, your president has been insisting that whatever the president says or does is legal (justified or not) simply because he’s the president. Well that makes your story pretty much a pile of crap, because Obama was the President when these things occurred. This will also apply to the next Supreme Court Justice appointment, if an opening occurs during the last year of Trumps tenure. The Republicans blocked Obama’s appointment. So, it follows!
What is fair for one, is fair for all
What’s really amazing are all the lies, quotes and misrepresentations attributed to Trump that were never said. People don’t believe you anymore—and for good reason. From his first speech on immigration and “all Mexicans are rapists,” to Charlottesville, to Black SOBs (in the NFL), to MS13 being “animals,” almost everything Trump has said has been deliberately taken out of context.
Democrats and the media have always had an inherently skewed perspective of who conservatives are, and what they believe. They live in an alternate reality that is built on a foundation of lies and misrepresentations that they’ve told each other about Republicans and conservatives for decades. This goes back to 1964, when democrats started to rewrite the racist history of their party in an attempt to marginalize their role in slavery, segregation and Jim Crow.
In this attempt to exonerate themselves, Democrats started blaming all of America for its racist past, taking special care to accuse their Republican opponents of what they were most guilty of. Despite a 100-year record of Republicans fighting for civil rights—democrats, the media and even academia would spend the next several decades repeating a lie so they could create a caricature of Republicans and conservatives as racists, while absolving themselves of any responsibility.
Sadly, these generations of lies have created in engrained and inherent belief that has clouded everything that democrats and the media think they know about their political opponents. Whether it’s hearing “dog whistles” or changing the context of a speech to reflect their own preconceived bias, the Left continues to live in an alternate reality of their own creation.
This article is BS. If there was anything to go on, Trump would have already outlined it. He had 3 years to do it, and all he can do is continuously lie, lie, and lie. thousands of lies. He is the Prince of Lies, sheeple, read your bible and see for yourself. Then go clean up your guns and get ready for the next Idiot Parade around your own state capital. Don’t forget your rusted out, jacked up, loud as hell pickup truck. Oh, sorry about that reference to your penis. You already compensated for it with a long gun…
Take your head out of your dumb a– and open your eyes and close your mouth long enough for what similance of a brain you may still have to function for more than a nanosecond and you might notice how wrong you are about your references. If you were not so far gone I might feel pity for you, but your comments make it apparent you are not just lost but too ignorant to realize it.