Trump accused the former president of committing the “biggest political crime in American history.”
President Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign to encourage sweeping investigations of his predecessor Barack Obama met a unanimous response from Senate Republicans: No thanks.
Trump’s Senate allies on Monday stopped short of echoing Trump’s 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.
“I’m 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.
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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 FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia.
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Trump and his allies have pinned their hopes on Durham to unveil charges of misconduct against former officials at the highest levels of the Obama administration who spearheaded the Russia probe, though there’s no indication Durham has uncovered any evidence of criminal activity by senior Obama aides.
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President Trump’s aggressive campaign to encourage sweeping investigations of his predecessor Barack Obama met a unanimous response from Senate Republicans: No thankshttps://t.co/sc2rt1IvBy
— POLITICO (@politico) May 12, 2020
Even Lindsey's not taking the "Obamagate" bait.
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 12, 2020
We've always known that 3.5 years of Team Trump pushing Upside-Down 2016, where poor Donnie & his pals were the innocent victims of FBI/IC set-up, was gonna end with "Obamagate."
It's utter nonsense, the opposite of the truth, but we live in the post-truth media age, alas.
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 12, 2020
How to #ObamaGate pic.twitter.com/0HLsPQtN2I
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) May 12, 2020
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