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Only idiots are buying the Obamagate silliness https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/11/senate-gop-breaks-with-trump-over-obamagate/
Trumps Senate allies on Monday stopped short of echoing Trumps frenetic and unsubstantiated claim that Obama acted illegally when the Justice Department began probing incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn in late 2016. And they indicated that the Senate would pass on investigating the former president as they conduct their own investigations that could soon ensnare other senior Obama administration officials.
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)The intent is the same. Just a modest change in method.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Yeah, we'll get right on that Prez.
Cha
(297,190 posts)Off the American People Even More than they already are.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)I suspect quite a few Senate Repubs are looking into their retirement planning right now.
Cha
(297,190 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Cha
(297,190 posts)Cha
(297,190 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,653 posts)It actually made me chuckle and I haven't smiled in several days. Mahalo, Cha.
❤ lmsp
Cha
(297,190 posts)& you're welcome! I take full credit for this one. lol
BeSafe!
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)No one should brush this aside like many did with "Hillary's emails."
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)They are also perhaps afraid of aggressive investigations from a Biden Administration.
librechik
(30,674 posts)Tech
(1,771 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,585 posts)Remember, these are the same people who keep saying, "We've got to get back to the Constitution!"
stillcool
(32,626 posts)don't want to see the light of day. They only do things like this when it's self-preservation.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Why are they worrying about the scandal free Obama Administration?
There are a few million Trump Crimes that need scrutiny.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Obama staff and FBI agents. Biden, Rice, Comey, McCabe and Yates, to name a few, better be prepared for an October surprise we all know that is coming. The Fox sycophants started to rev up the smear campaign with talk about Susan Rice emails and Obama misdeeds. Its all playing out before our eyes the effort to change the history of Russian election interference starting with asking the court to dismiss charges against Flynn. Next Barr and Dunham. Will attempt to charge Biden,Rice, Comey, McCabe and Yates to name a few to change the subject away from the virus.
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)it would expose their money laundering and other crimes.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)Link to tweet
Trumps Senate allies on Monday stopped short of echoing Trumps claim that Obama acted illegally when the Justice Department began probing incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn in late 2016. And they indicated that the Senate would pass on investigating the former president as they conduct their own investigations that could soon ensnare other senior Obama administration officials.
Im not anticipating calling President Obama, said Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), whose panel is investigating the origins of the 2016 Russia investigation, even as he vowed to bring in former senior Obama administration officials as witnesses. Those ex-officials include former FBI Director James Comey and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
I think the presidents got a real good reason to be upset with the Obama people, Graham said.
Senate Republicans, however, sidestepped questions of whether the Justice Department should pursue criminal investigations against the former Obama officials, instead deferring to the ongoing investigation of U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was tapped by Attorney General Williams Barr to probe the origins of the FBIs investigation of the Trump campaigns contacts with Russia.