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Trump implies Obama link in Flynn investigation, labels controversy 'Obamagate'
President Trump on Sunday escalated his attacks on former President Obama by tweeting "OBAMAGATE" and implying he is linked to the FBI's much-criticized handling of the now-dropped Michael Flynn case.
President Trump on Sunday escalated his attacks on former President Obama by tweeting "OBAMAGATE" and implying he is linked to the FBI's much-criticized handling of the now-dropped Michael Flynn case.
Last week, Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department dismissed the case against Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, which was seen as the key prosecution from Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign. Trump, along with other Republicans, seized on the decision and framed it as an example of a Democrat-manufactured plot to remove him from office.
Trump retweeted Eli Lake, a columnist at Bloomberg, who said he has been reviewing the interview transcripts that were recently released in the collusion investigation. Lake wrote, “It’s now clear why every Republican on [Rep. Adam Schiff’s] committee in 2019 called for his resignation. He knew the closed-door witnesses didn’t support his innuendo and fakery on Russia collusion.”
Sidney Powell, one of Flynn’s lawyers, told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” that FBI agents did their best to hide their investigation and attempted to entrap Flynn. She mentioned a meeting on Jan. 5, 2017 at the White House that included Obama, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan.
Powell said the “whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, Clapper, Brennan and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama,” she told anchor Maria Bartiromo.
Bartiromo asked Powell if she believed the scandal reached up to Obama, and Powell responded, “Absolutely.” Trump later tweeted, “OBAMAGATE,” indicating that he believes that Obama worked to undermine his presidency. Click here for more on our top story.
Other related developments:
- NBC admits Chuck Todd's 'Meet the Press' deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn
- Trey Gowdy reacts to Obama's 'amazing statement' after DOJ dropped Flynn case
- Washington Post had 'divisions in the newsroom' over Flynn's Russia calls, before publishing opinion piece
- Andrew McCarthy: FBI targeted Flynn because they knew he'd uncover illegitimacy of Russia probe
- NBC admits Chuck Todd's 'Meet the Press' deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn
- Trey Gowdy reacts to Obama's 'amazing statement' after DOJ dropped Flynn case
- Washington Post had 'divisions in the newsroom' over Flynn's Russia calls, before publishing opinion piece
- Andrew McCarthy: FBI targeted Flynn because they knew he'd uncover illegitimacy of Russia probe
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